Zila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of zillah
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zilɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 42K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 57K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
5,077 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of zillah.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zila 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.
5,077 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Zila 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.
Sombra
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Hungarian, a magistrate (= Lat. praetor)
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Zulu, to abstain from
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lingala, to wait
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ibg, tongue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Zila Mamedeb. 1928BRBrazilian writer (1928-1985)
- Zila Berndb. 1944BRBrazilian writer
- Zila Patricia Caballero ÑopoPEPeruvian doctor
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 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.8K | #2,741 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 6.8K | #1,196 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5K | #2,714 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 4.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 4.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 1.2K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Zila mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of zillah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zila?
- A machine transcription gives /zilɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Zila a male or female name?
- Zila 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 Zila have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Zila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zila.
- How common is the name Zila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,077 people named Zila in 2022, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zilaThe 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, “Zila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.