Gila is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Gila in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Gila in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Gila by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Gila ranks at #8,341. That means there are 8,340 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gila.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Gila. Girls named Gila have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,036 Gila ranked higher than ever in 1935. By comparison, there have been 77 years in which the first name Gila has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2003. In general, parents name their daughters Gila only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Gila continues to be a precious jewel: 8 newborns were named Gila that year, ranking #9,733 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Gila, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Gila, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Gila living in one state or another (if your name is Gila and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 81,735 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Gila. So, if your name is Gila it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Gila already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Gila is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gila and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gila, you can simply say:
Goat
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gila
Gila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
I
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
I
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gila sounds like this:
