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Soila

Girls' name

Possibly glimmer; flame of aurora, through Soile

Soila has been given to 826 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 1935, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Soila, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Soila: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly glimmer; flame of aurora, through Soile

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Soila means

Soila belongs to the name family reached through Soila → Soile. Its meaning is “glimmer; flame of aurora”.

Origin, language, and formation

Soila is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Soile.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Soila is pronounced /ˈsoi̯lɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 826 girls were recorded with the name Soila between 1912 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1935; its best national rank was #1,441 in 1935.

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 Soila?

Soila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Soila 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Soila was born before 1955 — so the typical Soila is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
14.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 14.4% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Soila 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 1935 (27)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,441
1935

Spellings of Soila

Soila is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 19.6% against Soila's 0.07%.

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 Soila is used

Across 1910–2025, Soila was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 54,411 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 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. Soila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Soila 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
#1,441
1935
Peak year
1935
27 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
826
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Soila

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

AvilaDailaMailaZailaAkilaMeilaAnilaAmilaCailaNeilaHilaNabilaAquilaZoilaKilaTehilaGilaTailaAlailaKalilaYamilaJailaAmeilaSila

Sibling names for Soila

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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