Soila — girls' name
826 babies named Soila in U.S. Social Security records since 1912, with the highest year being 1935. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
14% of everyone ever named Soila was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Soila in 1935 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Soila
The Social Security Administration has registered 826 babies named Soila between 1912 and 2015, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Soila currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1935, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Soila performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Soila shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 472 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Soila in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Soila in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 826 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Soila at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Soila popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1912
- Peak year (1935)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 104 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
826 total births across 104 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1935 with 27 births in a single year.
Soila by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 119 births that decade — 14% of Soila's all-time total
Soila decade highlights
- Peak decade 119 births
- Runner-up 116 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Soila's strongest decade
119 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 14% of all-time use.
Soila by state
Where Soila concentrates geographically — total births since 1912
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 472 | 57.1% |
| #2 | California | | 48 | 5.8% |
472 of 826 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 57.1% of nationwide
- California 5.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 57.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1912–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.