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Kila

#16,175 in 2025Girls' name

High, strong

Kila has been given to 936 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #16,175 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1972, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Kila, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kila over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kila: meaning, origin, and history

High, strong

Hawaiian

What Kila means

Kila means “high, strong”, associated with kila.

Origin, language, and formation

Kila is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sila.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kila is pronounced /ˈki.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 931 girls were recorded with the name Kila between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1972; its best national rank was #1,643 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,325 in 2020 to #16,175 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,882 in 2015 to #16,175 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kila between 1972 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1972; its best national rank was #5,385 in 1972.

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 Kila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,175
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kila 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kila was born before 1995 — so the typical Kila is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
931
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (242).

Is Kila 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
−3,356
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,850
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,707
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.1%
Peak was 1972 (55)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,643
1972

Spellings of Kila

Kila is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 15.2% against Kila'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 Kila is used

Across 1910–2025, Kila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,409,576 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 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. Kila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kila around the world

Where Kila 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
    2009–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2002–2024
    #898
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Kila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,175
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,850
Best rank ever
#1,643
1972
Peak year
1972
55 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
931
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,385
1972
Peak year
1972
5 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1972
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kila

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

HilaKilahGilaSilaEilaZailaAvilaDailaMailaAmilaAkilaCailaMeilaNeilaAnilaKilynKillianKileeKilaniZoilaTehilaAilaNabilaAquila

Sibling names for Kila

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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