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The first name 
Kila

Kila is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Kila – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Kila in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kila in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kila by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kila ranks at #10,100. That means there are 10,099 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 Kila.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kila

Kila -
once in a blue moon

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 Kila. Girls named Kila have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,448 Kila ranked higher than ever in 1972. By comparison, there have been 82 years in which the first name Kila 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 2018. In general, parents name their daughters Kila 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 Kila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Kila in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Kila continues to be a precious jewel: 8 newborns were named Kila that year, ranking #9,733 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Kila, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Kila -
at home in California and Illinois

Meeting a woman or girl named Kila is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Kila can be found in only two: California and Illinois. No other state currently has residents named Kila. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Kila living in one state or another (if your name is Kila and you live outside of California or Illinois, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Kila is in Illinois, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Illinois, only 0.00012% of all female residents are named Kila – that’s just one in 840,966! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 17 women with that name. So, if your name is Kila, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Kila has 4 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.

With four letters, the name Kila 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.

That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.

Other names with 
K, i, l and a

If you take all the letters in the name Kila – K, i, l and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Kial or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kila

If your name is Kila 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...

This is how you spell the name Kila

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kila, you can simply say:

Koala

Igloo

Lion

Apple

This is how the name Kila is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kila in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kila

Kila

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kila

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kila is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
I
L
A

Have you ever waved the name Kila

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.

K
I
L
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Kila sounds like this: