Is Ila a boy or girl name?

Ila is primarily a girl name in U.S. records: about 100% of recorded births are female.

What is the average age of someone named Ila?

The average Ila alive today is an estimated 37 years old. People named Ila were most often born around 2023.

When was the name Ila most popular?

Ila peaked in 1925 with 649 recorded births in the United States.

What vibe does the name Ila have?

In one report's words: spare, sunlit, porch-sitting. Ila ranks #1651 among all U.S. first names since 1880.

Ila — Name Meaning, Age & Vibe | Understand Your Name

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Origin & Meaning

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In Sanskrit, Ila means earth or speech and belongs to a deity in Vedic literature. In nineteenth-century America, it surfaced as an unadorned variant of Isla or a short phonetic pick. It entered federal birth rolls in 1880 as a straightforward three-letter choice.

Also answers toIlly

Fig. 1 — Births per annum, 1880–2025

SSA Data

1880 peak: 649 souls, A.D. 1925 2025

2025: 390 born, rising ↑

Estimated Age

37 yrs

Most Ilas were born around 2023 — old enough to remember dial-up.

Peak Reign

1925

№261 that year

Generation

Gen Alpha, 43%

then Silent 17% · Boomer 17%

Rarity

Top 2000 all-time

≈25K ever born · now rising

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Ila grew up with

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podcasts in the car seat·self-checkout beeps·a screen that always answers back

Generation Distribution — Living Ilas

SSA Data

Silent 17%Boomer 17%Gen X 5%Millennial 4%Gen Z 14%Gen Alpha 43%

Data vs. Humans

What the data says

SSA Data

SSA: Ila peaked in 1925.

Estimated average age: 37.

What people think

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Formal Casual

Soft Strong

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Public Opinion Ledger

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First Impressions

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The name reads as either very young or very old, with almost nothing in the middle. Hearing it suggests either a toddler with wooden blocks or a great-aunt with hard candies. It shares the lean geometry of early radio-era names dusted off for modern use. The main friction is whether strangers mistake the capital I for a lowercase L.

Field Notes

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Field Note 01

The name reached its historical high-water mark in 1925 with 649 recorded births before beginning a long retreat.

Field Note 02

More than forty percent of living bearers belong to Generation Alpha, giving it an unusually young center of gravity today.

Field Note 03

With about twenty-five thousand births recorded since 1880, it remained rare enough to avoid heavy mid-century overexposure.

Notable Ilas

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Ila Fox Loetschersea turtle conservationist, b. 1904

Ila Bordersbaseball pitcher, b. 1975

Adjacent Names

Isla · Ada · Opal · Alma · Ione · Cora

Ephemera — If Ila were a…

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Town

Petaluma, California

Color

Dried clover

Artifact

Zinc canning lid

Trade

Botanical illustrator

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