Hilla
loc · Latin script
Meaning: cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hilla is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 584as הילה(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 408Kas Hila
- FIFinland1 in 1.1K
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 Hilla 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 named הילה, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled הילה in IL Israel, LA Laos, ET Ethiopia and Hila in US United States, NL Netherlands, CY Cyprus.
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)
cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #141 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 584 | 176 | הילה | 106 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,982 | 1 in 1.1K | 5.2K | — | 40 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | הילה | 1 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | הילה | 3 |
| US United States | — | 816as Hila | 1 in 408K | 1.8K | Hila | 189 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 545as Hille | 1 in 32K | 477 | Hila | 11 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Hila | 4 |
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: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Hilla 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 German, ) Hille: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Icelandic, shelf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Irākas vidienē ("Hilla"), Bābilas muhāfazas administratīvais centrs, 335800 iedzīvotāju (2003. g.)
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)
- Hilla von Rebayb. 1890USAmerican artist of German descent (1890–1967)
- Hille Nilssonb. 1905SEnot in their usual nameSwedish table tennis player (1905-1961)
- Hilla Limannb. 1934GHeighth President of the Republic of Ghana (1934–1998)
- Hilla Becherb. 1934DEGerman photographer (1934–2015)
- Hille Darjesb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman Actress and radio play speaker
- Hille Perlb. 1965DEnot in their usual nameGerman viol player (born 1965)
- Hille Hansob. 1976EEnot in their usual nameEstonian author, journalist, and human rights activist (born 1976)
- Hilla Medaliab. 1977ILfilm producer
- Hilla Nachshonb. 1980ILIsraeli television host, producer, and former model
- Hilla Niemeläb. 2001FIFinnish cross-country skier
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(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #24,860 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 23 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hilla mean, and where does it come from?
- cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named הילה in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hilla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hilla is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hilla?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,982 people named Hilla, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Hilla compared with other names?
- In Israel, Hilla is the 141st most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hillaThe 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, “Hilla” — the 141st most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.