Amila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hopeful
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əmɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 362K(measured from records)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 371
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 402
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 371 (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
hopeful
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #456 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 371 | — | Amila | 55 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #301 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 402 | 29 | Amila | 26 |
| US United States | — | 920 | 1 in 362K | 854 | Amila | 159 |
| PL Poland | — | 846as Emila | 1 in 45K | 846 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 467as Emila | 1 in 453K | 523 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 284 | 1 in 36K | 284 | Amila | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 186 | 1 in 11K | 204 | — | 2 |
| GE Georgia | — | 101as ამილა | 1 in 40K | 101 | Amila | 2 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Amila is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mnc, romanization of ᠠᠮᡳᠯᠠ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Krievijas Krasnojarskas novadā, Tubas kreisā satekupe, izteka Kurtušibinas grēdas ziemeļaustrumos pie Tivas Republikas robežas
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)
- Amila Terzimehićb. 1988BABosnian actress
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 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 854 | #13,210 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 284 | #4,071 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 216 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 214 | #13,394 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 204 | #1,004 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 202 | #25,097 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 186 | #521 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 173 | #532 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 163 | #538 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 151 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 148 | #30,950 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 141 | #565 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amila mean, and where does it come from?
- hopeful Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Amila?
- A machine transcription gives /əmɪɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Amila a male or female name?
- Amila 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 Amila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Amila in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amila.
- How common is the name Amila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 920 people named Amila in 2020, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.
- How common is Amila compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Amila is the 456th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amilaThe 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, “Amila” — the 456th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.