Gila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Mad; crazy; insane (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries
/xjla/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Gila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 51K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 130K
- MXMexico≈1 in 140K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gila
- Spanish:/xjla/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Mad; crazy; insane.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 759K | 43 | — | 4 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Gila | 40 |
| US United States | — | 879 | 1 in 378K | 872 | Gila | 62 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gila | 22 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 432K | — | Gila | 18 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Gila | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 131K | 11 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | #879 | 67 | 1 in 51K | 67 | Gila | 5 |
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; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)Gila 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 English, river, US; county, AZ
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Let this live.
as a nameThe African book of names
In poz-pro, wild; skittish; insane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sjm, a wild jerking movement (as an animal when not wanting to have someone mount it or attach a cart to it); inappropriate behavior or words
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Sundanese, shy, fearful, shuddering (as when confronted with hot water, an enemy, etc.; wild, savage (out of fear), beside oneself
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Gila Almagorb. 1939ILIsraeli actress and writer
- Gil Birminghamb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Gil Kenanb. 1976GBnot in their usual nameBritish-American-Israeli film director
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)Evidence
(measured from records)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gila mean, and where does it come from?
- Mad; crazy; insane. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gila?
- In Spanish /xjla/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gila a male or female name?
- Gila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Gila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Gila in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Mexico, United States, Israel and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 879 people named Gila in 2020, about 1 in 378 thousand residents.
- How common is Gila compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Gila is the 879th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilaThe 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, “Gila” — ranked 48972nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.