Rilla
Rilla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 371st, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191456 births
- Best rank
- #371in 1881
- Since 1880
- 2,652people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,652 girls have been named Rilla in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1914, with 56 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 56 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1910s alone account for 14%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rilla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 244 | |
| 1890s | 346 | |
| 1900s | 271 | |
| 1910s | 381 | |
| 1920s | 379 | |
| 1930s | 319 | |
| 1940s | 283 | |
| 1950s | 175 | |
| 1960s | 79 | |
| 1970s | 23 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 17 | |
| 2010s | 68 | |
| 2020s | 61 |
In 1914, its biggest year
Rilla was the 776th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1914 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1914.
Names that rose and fell with Rilla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Hettiepeak 1916
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Vinniepeak 1916
- Lulapeak 1921
- Ettapeak 1920
- Mittiepeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.