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Basilia

Girls' name

Feminine form of Basil

Basilia has been given to 272 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Basilia, 2008

1 in 786,000

Basilia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Basilia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Basil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Basilia means

Basilia is a feminine form of Basil.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Basilia is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ba.ˈsi.lja/ for Basilia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Basilia → Basil → Basilius → Βασίλειος. The family’s meaning is “of the king, kingly, royal”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements basíleios.

Origin, language, and formation

Basilia is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Basil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 272 girls were recorded with the name Basilia between 1912 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,209 in 1931.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Basilia?

Basilia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Basilia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Basilia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Basilias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Basilia was born before 1931 — so the typical Basilia is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
82
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Basilia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (15)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,209
1931

Spellings of Basilia

Basilia is not the most common spelling — Baila is, with 33.0% against Basilia's 2.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Basilia is used

Across 1910–2025, Basilia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 172,971 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Basilia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Basilia around the world

Where Basilia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1902–1992
    #2,716
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1954–1960
    #617
    in 1960

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Basilia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,209
1931
Peak year
1922
15 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
272
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Basilia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Basilia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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