Hilla

Girls' name

Cloudberry

Hilla has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 1996, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Hilla, 2020

1 in 668,000

Hilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hilla: meaning, origin, and history

Cloudberry

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hilla means

Hilla means “cloudberry”, associated with hilla.

Origin, language, and formation

Hilla is used in Finnish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Hilla is pronounced /ˈhilːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Hilla between 1996 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1996; its best national rank was #12,383 in 1996.

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 Hilla?

Hilla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 668,000; 5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only: 1 in 323,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,344 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hilla 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hilla was born before 1996 — so the typical Hilla is around 29 today.

Median birth year: 1996; About 29 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Hilla 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1996 (6)
Years since peak: 29; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #12,383; 1996

Spellings of Hilla

Hilla is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 18.9% against Hilla's <0.01%.

Ella18.9%351,313
Jill11.2%208,071
Holly11.0%205,304
Wilma7.5%140,101
Viola7.2%132,993
Mila4.5%84,489
Bella4.5%83,721
Hilda4.4%81,022

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.

Hilla around the world

Where Hilla 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
2008–2019
#5,591
in 2019
South Australia
2013–2013
#818
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hilla 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: —
Best rank ever: #12,383; 1996
Peak year: 1996; 6 that year
First recorded: 1996
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hilla

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

Hildi Hili Hilal Laella Hilia Viella Hilani Hillis Kyella Hildie Billa Hilton Hiley Hildia Gaella Hildah Hildra Brilla Ivella Dilla Xella Hilder Amella Talla

Sibling names for Hilla

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

For a sister

Iman Breann Cinthia Katia Kaela Tristan Lexus Estefania

For a brother

Austyn Claudio Dontae Deion Dangelo Samual Tristin Rashawn

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