Nila
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A unisex given name borne by people in or from India
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 42 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/naɪlə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Nila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Syria it is the 56th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 14K
- USUnited States1 in 60K
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 Nila 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 named Hala, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hala in SY Syria, EG Egypt, US United States and 2 more and Nilu in IN India.
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)dark blue; indigo; sapphire; the Ceylon Hill Mynah (Gracula ptilogenys); the Indian Fig tree (Ficus indica).
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nila is read
(measured from records)Nila is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nila in Hindi.
- English24%
A unisex given name borne by people in or from India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nila in Spanish.
- Indonesian10%
a plant which produce blue color, Indigofera suffruticosa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
indigo (coloured indigo)
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Nila, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #122 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | listed | Hala | 123 |
| BD Bangladesh | #217 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Nila | 38 |
| IN India | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1.4K | Nilu | 96 |
| SY Syria | #56 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 352 | 1 | Hala | 53 |
| JO Jordan | #285 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 273 | — | Hala | 96 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #272 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 984 | — | Hala | 116 |
| US United States | — | 5,504 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Hala | 273 |
| IS Iceland | — | 501as Halla | 1 in 700 | 535 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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)Nila 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.
dark blue; indigo; sapphire; the Ceylon Hill Mynah (Gracula ptilogenys); the Indian Fig tree (Ficus indica).
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
name of many men (P); Batukabhairava (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Nila Paskob. 1910UAUkrainian Righteous Among the Nations
- Nila Shemshurinab. 1927UAUkrainian Righteous Among the Nations
- Nila Krjukowab. 1943UAUkrainian actor (1943-2018)
- Nila Herediab. 1943BOBolivian politician
- Nila Moeloekb. 1949IDophthalmologist and 18th Health Minister of Indonesia
- nila northSunb. 1951USAmerican writer and historian
- Nila Madhab Pandab. 1973INIndian film director
- Nila Ibrahimib. 2007AFactivist for the rights of Afghan women and adolescents
- Nila Aaliaactress
- Nīladevīnot in their usual nameHindu goddess of joy and consort of Vishnu
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)88 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.5K | #3,692 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 116 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #3,692 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nila come from?
- dark blue; indigo; sapphire; the Ceylon Hill Mynah (Gracula ptilogenys); the Indian Fig tree (Ficus indica). Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Nila?
- It depends on the language: in English /naɪlə/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /nila/; in Indonesian /nila/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nila a male or female name?
- Nila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and France (INSEE, 2024), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Nila?
- In the etymology graph, Neela is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Nila mean?
- In English, A unisex given name borne by people in or from India.
- In which country does Nila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 211 thousand people named Hala in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,504 people named Nila in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Nila compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Nila is the 122nd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nilaThe 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, “Nila” — the 122nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.