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Nila
Pronounced /nilə/
Rank in 2024
#1,671
Born in 2024
122
Peak year
2022 · #1506
Origin
Russian
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 122 girls were named Nila, about 1 in every 13,223.
- It peaked in 2022 with 144 babies, ranked #1506.
- It first shows up in the records in 1890.
- 7,019 girls have been named Nila since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Nila per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 985 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 1,623 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,397 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 366 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 283 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 898 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,397 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Sanskrit नील (nīla, “of a dark colour; blue; black”), Bengali নীলা (nila, “blue”), or related words in other Indian subcontinent languages. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /nilə/ Rhymes: -iːlə ==== Proper noun ==== Nila (plural Nilas) (Hinduism) A vanara, brother of Nala and son of Agni in Ramayana. A unisex given name borne by people in or from India. A surname. ===== Alternative forms ===== Neela ===== Statistics ===== According to the 2010 United States Census, Nila is the 31824th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 725 individuals.
- A unisex given name borne by people in or from India.
- A female given name.
- A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
- Origin
- Russian
- Say it
- /nilə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Nila, CC BY-SA 4.0.