Eila

#1,777 for girls in 2025, 113 births

Peak · girls
2020 · 156 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,906
since 1912

Eila over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Eila has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201912girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,777113
2024#1,942102
2023#1,486146
2022#1,518142
2021#1,721120
2020#1,398156
2019#1,98697
2018#2,19085
2017#1,976100
2016#2,03397
2015#2,20985
2014#2,56069
2013#3,16651
2012#2,77063
2011#2,90959
2010#3,51645
2009#4,26935
2008#5,01329
2007#6,55220
2006#8,71513
2005#10,12810
2004#11,6248
2003#11,3258
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2000#11,8017
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1939#4,2505
1938#3,8476
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1933#3,7536
1932#2,83110
1931#3,8486
1930#4,0476
1929#3,6827
1928#2,95410
1927#2,25616
1926#3,5648
1925#2,77812
1924#2,80912
1923#2,26416
1922#2,61213
1921#2,04819
1920#2,59013
1919#3,2199
1918#3,2449
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1916#3,5527
1915#3,4347
1914#2,4349
1913#2,5407
1912#2,9795
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First appearance
1912

The first year at least five girls were named Eila! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Eila is popular in 1912

No state had 5 or more girls named Eila in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Eila
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 165 spots since 2024 (#1,942 → #1,777)
  • 379 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,777)
  • 432 spots since 2015 (#2,209 → #1,777)
Rise & fade · girls
108 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 2020 at #1,398 (156 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,362
  • Highest: 1 in 10,362 girls born in 2020 were named Eila (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 14,224 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 40.9% of all girls named Eila (779) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s53#2,434 (1914)#3,057
1920s126#2,048 (1921)#2,756
1930s45#2,831 (1932)#3,754
1940s6#4,764 (1947)#4,764
1950s5#5,673 (1953)#5,673
1960s0——
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1980s5#12,362 (1989)#12,362
1990s0——
2000s136#4,269 (2009)#9,216
2010s751#1,976 (2017)#2,532
2020s779#1,398 (2020)#1,640

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Eila in 1912

girls
#2,979
5 births · 1 in 111,624 girls

Top girls' names in 1912

  1. #1Mary32,304
  2. #2Helen16,133
  3. #3Dorothy12,645
  4. #4Margaret12,536
  5. #5Ruth11,280
  6. #6Mildred8,764
  7. #7Anna8,586
  8. #8Elizabeth8,527
  9. #9Frances6,680
  10. #10Marie6,642
  11. #2,979Eila5
More about 1912

girls

558,119 girls got a published name in 1912; 1 in 111,624 of them was named Eila, which outranked 13.5% of the 3,445 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Eila
  1. #2,634Zeda6
  2. #2,634Zenith6
  3. #2,634Zorah6
  4. #2,979Eila5
  5. #2,979Adelma5
  6. #2,979Adie5
  7. #2,979Adlene5

Tied with 466 names at #2,979; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1911
Risers
  1. ↑ 712Jule#1,545 → #833
  2. ↑ 626Beula#1,545 → #919
  3. ↑ 602Noma#1,372 → #770
  4. ↑ 577Walter#1,372 → #795
  5. ↑ 490Izora#1,450 → #960
Fallers
  1. ↓ 912Mabell#932 → #1,844
  2. ↓ 602Justina#875 → #1,477
  3. ↓ 579Irine#898 → #1,477
  4. ↓ 579Sula#898 → #1,477
  5. ↓ 568Cordia#853 → #1,421

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1912 →