Nilla

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈnɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nilla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In English, recorded as Clipping of vanilla.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 15K
  • FIFinland1 in 25K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

697 people

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

How Nilla is read(measured from records)

Nilla 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.

  • English28%

    Clipping of vanilla.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Indonesian21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Nilla in Indonesian.

  • Hindi11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Nilla in Hindi.

  • Swedish6.9%

    a diminutive of the female given names Pernilla or Gunilla

    as a wordkaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nilla 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.

Where Nilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden6971 in 15K697Nilla14
FI Finland2231 in 25K202—6
US United States1561 in 2.1M156Nilla98
BR Brazil441 in 4.8M50——
DK Denmark211 in 279K21——
NL Netherlands201 in 864K20Nilla5
MD Moldova21 in 1.7M2——

697 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); e-services.md — living population register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nilla is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swedish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Nĩllắ, Nîllâ

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Nilla Cram Cook, b. 1908Nilla Six, b. 1932Nilla Pierrou, b. 1947Nilla Tapiola, b. 1960Nilla Fischer, b. 1984Nilla Hallström, b. 2003

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)

InformalHi Nilla,

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 33 sources across 19 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Nilla mean?
In English, Clipping of vanilla.
How do you pronounce Nilla?
A machine transcription gives /ˈnɪɫə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Nilla a male or female name?
Nilla 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 Nilla have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 697 people named Nilla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nilla.
Where is Nilla most common?
Nilla is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nilla?
In Sweden, the national register counted 697 people named Nilla, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.

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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, “Nilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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