Eila
Eila was given to 113 girls in 2025, #1,783 among girls’ names; 1,906 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Eila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eila mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Eila is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “Helen” (Eli).
Possibly a variant of Norwegian Eili, a rare form of Eli (“Helen”), or from English Eileen. Popularized by the novel Tuskaa (1907) by Väinö Kataja.
/ˈei̯lɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eila?
#1,783 among girls’ names, 2025
Eila rose from #2,217 in 2015 to #1,783 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 47.6 to 70.3 per million.
156 babies in 2020, the peak
Eila peaked in 2020, when 156 girls were given it, #1,400 among girls’ names. The 113 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,783 | 70.3 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,946 | 63.0 |
| 2023 | 146 | #1,489 | 91.0 |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,519 | 86.6 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,722 | 73.1 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,400 | 96.5 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,991 | 57.8 |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,194 | 50.0 |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,979 | 57.9 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,038 | 54.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,217 | 47.6 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,562 | 38.6 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,186 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,778 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,919 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,531 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,298 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,052 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,630 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,865 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,351 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,927 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,615 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,041 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,160 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,955 | 2.7 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,908 | 2.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,903 | 3.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,426 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,969 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,815 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,864 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,876 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,001 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,176 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,769 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,000 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,278 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,659 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,824 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,852 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,293 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,652 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,067 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,627 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,278 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,314 | 7.8 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,646 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,526 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,479 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,613 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,094 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eila, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,906 Americans ever recorded as Eila. The median Eila alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,176 people named Eila (1,169 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 964 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,360 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eila born?
The states with the most babies named Eila are California, Pennsylvania and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,992 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #947 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,709 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #588 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,020 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,079 | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,181 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,249 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,267 | 0.7× |
| Kansas | 5 | #604 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 441,256 babies since 1880, Eila is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 113 of their 7,241 babies (1.6%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eila and names like it
- Compare Eila and EllaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEila peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eila since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Eila: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Eila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.