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Vilija

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Vilija has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1956, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Vilija, 1956

1 in 824,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vilija: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vilija means

Vilija is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vilija is used in Lithuanian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Vilija is pronounced [ˈʋʲɪlʲɪjɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Vilija between 1956 and 1956. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1956; its best national rank was #6,864 in 1956.

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 Vilija?

Vilija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1956
1 in 824,000
5 of 4,122,003 births
Among girls only
1 in 401,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1956
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
571,432 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vilija 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 1956 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 571,432 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vilija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vilijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vilija was born before 1956 — so the typical Vilija is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Vilija 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 1956 (5)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,864
1956

Spellings of Vilija

Vilija is not the most common spelling — Lilia is, with 51.9% against Vilija'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.

Vilija around the world

Where Vilija 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.

  • South Australia
    1962–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vilija 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
#6,864
1956
Peak year
1956
5 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
1956
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vilija

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

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Sibling names for Vilija

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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