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Eila

#1,783 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Eili

Eila has been given to 1,906 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,783 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Eila, 2025

1 in 29,300

Eila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eila: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Eili

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eila means

Eila belongs to the name family reached through Eila → Eili → Eli → Elin → Helene → Ἑλένη. Its meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eila is used in Finnish.

Eila comes through Norwegian Eili and English Eileen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eili, Eli, Elin, Helene and Ἑλένη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Eila is pronounced /ˈei̯lɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,906 girls were recorded with the name Eila between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,400 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,400 in 2020 to #1,783 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,217 in 2015 to #1,783 in 2025.

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.

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How common is Eila?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,300
113 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,783
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,337 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eila 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eila was born before 2018 — so the typical Eila is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,676
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (779).

Is Eila 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
+163
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−383
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+434
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.4%
Peak was 2020 (156)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,400
2020

Spellings of Eila

Eila is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 10.9% against Eila's 0.02%.

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 Eila is used

Across 2016–2025, Eila was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 18,912 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 7,692
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 11,111
  3. 3Ohio1 in 12,500
  4. 4Michigan1 in 14,286
  5. 5New York1 in 14,286
  6. 6California1 in 16,667
  7. 7Indiana1 in 16,667
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 16,667

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.

Eila around the world

Where Eila 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #354
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2011–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2019–2025
    #4,415
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,783
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 383
Best rank ever
#1,400
2020
Peak year
2020
156 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,906
Count in 2025
113

Names similar to Eila

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

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Sibling names for Eila

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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