Given name & surname
Kila
“high, strong”
Kila is a masculine given name from Hawaiian. It is used in Hawaiian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kila through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 936
- 5 boys · 931 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 60 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,179 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +37%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,179 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 897 as a first name in 2020; 172 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kila’s family of names
In Hawaiian usage, Kila has a conventional equivalent in the English form Silas.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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