Zila
Zila was last recorded in 2024, when 11 babies were given it; 89 Americans have been recorded with it between 2008 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zila mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zila is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zila?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,542, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2021, the peak
Zila peaked in 2021, when 11 girls were given it, #9,550 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 | #9,542 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,601 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,284 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,550 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,440 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,982 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,388 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,207 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,246 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,838 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #13,328 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,812 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zila, and how old are they?
An estimated 88 Americans named Zila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 199 people named Zila (195 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 44 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Zila?
Zila is a less common spelling of Zyla: SSA has recorded 89 Zila and 2,545 Zyla since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,166 babies since 1880, Zila is the sixth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 437 babies recorded by SSA was a Zila (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Zila
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 Zila and names like it
- Compare Zila and ZylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZila peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Zila.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.