first name
NILA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 5,504 people named Nila, 46.6% reported their origin as White, 21.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 13.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 99% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nila peaked in 2022, when 144 babies got the name.
At least 7,136 babies have been given the name since 1890. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Nila by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #1,283. The largest share of babies named Nila, 22.7%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nila is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nila has been most common in West Virginia (7.3×), Indiana (7×), and Oklahoma (3.1×), and least common in New York (0.45×).
2,725 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Nila
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nila, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Nila ranks #32,985 of 156,621, with 745 people. See Nila as a last name
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