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Hila

#6,408 in 2025Girls' name

Halo, aura

Hila has been given to 812 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #6,408 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Hila, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hila: meaning, origin, and history

Halo, aura

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hila means

Hila means “halo, aura”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 812 girls were recorded with the name Hila between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,029 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,343 in 2020 to #6,408 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,157 in 2015 to #6,408 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.

How common is Hila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,408
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hila 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hila was born before 1976 — so the typical Hila is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
14.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
433
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 14.0% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Hila 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
+342
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+935
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,749
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.2%
Peak was 2022 (26)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,029
1909

Spellings of Hila

Hila is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 17.6% against Hila's 0.01%.

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 Hila is used

Across 1910–2025, Hila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,239,964 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Hila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hila around the world

Where Hila 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,443
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,408
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 935
Best rank ever
#1,029
1909
Peak year
2022
26 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
812
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Hila

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

KilaHildeGilaSilaAvilaDailaMailaEilaAkilaZailaMeilaAnilaAmilaHilariaCailaNeilaNabilaAquilaZoilaHildurTehilaAilaVilaTaila

Sibling names for Hila

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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