Hyla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hajlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hyla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 853K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
- BRBrazil1 in 4.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 853K (inferred from the name graph)
390 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 390 | 1 in 853K | 390 | Hyla | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 45 | 1 in 4.7M | 45 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Hyla | 5 |
| SK Slovakia | — | — | — | Hyla | 1 |
390 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hyla is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A tree frog of the genus Hyla.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to howl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kokuvardes
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henry Stallardb. 1901GBnot in their usual nameBritish athlete (1901–1973)
- Cynthia Whittakerb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican historian (1941-2023)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 390 | #24,628 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 45 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #71,575 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 36 | #42,473 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #42,814 |
Reference works 4
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hyla?
- A machine transcription gives /hajlə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Hyla a male or female name?
- Hyla 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.
- In which country does Hyla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 390 people named Hyla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hyla.
- Where is Hyla most common?
- Hyla is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 853 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hyla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 390 people named Hyla in 2020, about 1 in 853 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hyla?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hylaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Hyla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.