girls:
73.3k births since 1880
#456 (92nd percentile)
boys:
57 births since 1920
#4529 (1st percentile)
overall:
73.4k births since 1880
#846 (89th percentile)
The name Lila is the #846 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 73,375 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #456 (92.0% percentile) for all time with 73,318 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,529 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 57 births since 1920.
Lila has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1920 for boys).
The name Lila has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lila reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 83.8% percentile (ranked #154) with 1,004 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 1,031 births per million (ranked 71.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lila ranks #205 for girls (78.4% percentile) with 798 births per million, which is 77.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lila reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #525) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1939.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lila".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lila. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.6% confident that Lila is pronounced as LAI-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-luh, at 40.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L AY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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