Vila is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Vila has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Vila. That means that a girl named Vila is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Vila.
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 Vila. Girls named Vila have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,156 Vila ranked higher than ever in 1897. By comparison, there have been 91 years in which the first name Vila 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Vila only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Vila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Meeting a woman or girl named Vila is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Vila can be found in only two: Texas and Wisconsin. No other state currently has residents named Vila. 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 Vila living in one state or another (if your name is Vila and you live outside of Texas or Wisconsin, 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 Vila is in Wisconsin, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Wisconsin, only 0.00033% of all female residents are named Vila – that’s just one in 304,186! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 15 women with that name. So, if your name is Vila, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Vila 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.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Vila 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 Vila, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vila
Vila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
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.
V
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. Vila sounds like this:
