Illa

Where Illa comes from

Illa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,700 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1900
    Illa Martin born
    German dendrologist
  3. 1915
    Illa Meery born
    French actress
  4. 1926
    Peak, #980
    58 babies named Illa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,413.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Illa Martin · German dendrologist, 1900–1988
  • Illa Meery · French actress, 1915–2010
  • Illa Raudik · Estonian underwater swimmer, born 1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.