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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ila

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#718

down −39 places

2025 births

390

down −31 births

All-time births

25,060

2% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1925
642 births
Best rank
#237
in 1903
First recorded
1880
#438 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1945
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1925642#261Peak
  2. 1921623#265
  3. 1924577#275
  4. 1922576#270
  5. 1918564#269

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #237 in 1903 · peak births 642 in 1925

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

60 boys · 25,060 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ila has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.