Nila

Where Nila comes from

From Sanskrit नील (nīla, “of a dark colour; blue; black”), Bengali নীলা (nila, “blue”), or related words in other Indian subcontinent languages.
— Wiktionary's entry for Nila
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,210 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1935
    Peak, #565
    128 babies named Nila — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1949
    Nila Moeloek born
    ophthalmologist and 18th Health Minister of Indonesia
  4. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,370.
  5. 1979
    Nila Håkedal born
    Norwegian beach volleyball player
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name borne by people in or from India.
  • A female given name.
  • A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
Namesakes
  • Nila Moeloek · ophthalmologist and 18th Health Minister of Indonesia, born 1949
  • Nila Håkedal · Norwegian beach volleyball player, born 1979
  • Nila Kriukova · Ukrainian actor, 1943–2018
  • Nila Heredia · Bolivian politician, born 1943
  • Nila Ibrahimi · activist for the rights of Afghan women and adolescents, born 2007

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.