Eila

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eila is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Eila är en finsk eller samisk bildning till (eller form av) → Elin via den norska formen Eili.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 311◐
  • SESweden1 in 4.6K
  • NONorway1 in 26K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈22K ●

across 15 countries

Sources
45 ●

2.1K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 311 ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Eila är en finsk eller samisk bildning till (eller form av) → Elin via den norska formen Eili. Det var ett mycket populärt namn i Finland 1920–1950. Namnet kan också vara en bildning till namn på det germanska Eil- (jämför → Eilert).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#9517,930△1.1K rec.1 in 31140KEila41
SE Sweden—2,196△144 rec.1 in 4.6K2.2KEila24
US United States—1,169△358 rec.1 in 285K1.2KEila45
BR Brazil—428—1 in 495K440——
ES Spain—321△41 rec.1 in 156K321Eila12
NO Norway—213△9 rec.1 in 26K660Eila6
MY Malaysia—186160 rec.——Eila7
IN India—160141 rec.—listedEila7
LV Latvia—450 rec.1 in 42K46—1
EE Estonia—373 rec.—26Eila4
GB United Kingdom—3424 rec.—4Eila12
DK Denmark—32—1 in 183K32——

Roughly 18K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 311). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish139K89%
  • Portuguese5.7K4%
  • English4.6K3%
  • Spanish1.9K1%
  • Norwegian Bokmål6601%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish139,46289%
Portuguese5,6624%
English4,6303%
Spanish1,9491%
Norwegian Bokmål6601%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eila is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name7.9K records spelled Eila8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Finland, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ēilā, Ëîlã, Eïla, Eilã, Eĭla

  • Indonesian given name421 records spelled Eila3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Finland, Indonesia, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Eilă

  • Spanish given name322 records spelled Eila12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Paraguay, France, Mexico, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, French, Catalan

    Also written Isla, Isle, Îslè, Ïslä, Islé

  • Russian given name99 records spelled Eila13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Finland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Эйла, Эила, Ейла, Ejla, Еила

  • Hungarian given name85 records spelled Eila2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Slovenia, Hungary, United States

    Also written Éîlà

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Eila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., verselbstständigte Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Eil-« (jüngere Form von »Agil-«, zu german. *agi- »Schrecken«, später

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • son of Ila the earth.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In lld, woman

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Rinda, kārta, aile

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

050100150200192019401960198020002020156 · 2020

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Eila in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1912–2025
Yearrecords
19125
19137
19149
19157
19167
19189
19199
192013
192119
192213
192316
192412
192512
19268
192716
192810
19297
19306
19316
193210
19336
19366
19386
19395
19476
19535
19895
20007
20016
20038
20048
200510
200613
200720
200829
200935
201045
201159
201263
201351
201469
201585
201697
2017100
201885
201997
2020156
2021120
2022142
2023146
2024102
2025113

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 52 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Eila Campbell, b. 1915Eila Pennanen, b. 1916Eila Kivikk'aho, b. 1921Eila Hiltunen, b. 1922Eila Pehkonen, b. 1924Eila Roine, b. 1931Eila Peitsalo, b. 1931Eila Rimmi, b. 1938Eila Nilsson, b. 1966

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 54 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Eila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40K#75
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—18K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.2K#997
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#11,064
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—660#2,110
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—440#8,103
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022428—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—424#14,887
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—418#16,022
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—321#6,284
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—298#3,055

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 357 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eila?
We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Eila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Eila have the most bearers?
We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Eila in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eila.
Where is Eila most common?
Eila is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 311 people carrying it.
How common is Eila compared with other names?
In Finland, Eila is the 95th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Eila a male or female name?
Eila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Eila mean?
Recorded meaning: Eila är en finsk eller samisk bildning till (eller form av) → Elin via den norska formen Eili.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eila” — the 95th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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