Kila
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Siva as KileSvara Mahadeva (K)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kila is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Siva as KileSvara Mahadeva (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 854 | Kila | 186 |
| DE Germany | — | 1 | Kila | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 235 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 169 | — | 14 |
| IN India | — | 85 | — | 10 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the de-leipzig-vornamen 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)
Kila 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.
flame.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In cau-and-pro, 1 dung 2 dung (of cow) 3 dry dung
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In English, Synonym of phurba (“Tibetan dagger”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, lightning
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sjm, to recognize something or someone; to be acquainted with someone; to identify something; to have someone identify something
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Adefemi Kilab. 1945NGNigerian politician
- Kila Haodab. 1949PGPapua New Guinean politician
- Aad Kilab. 1953NLDutch football player
- Erick Kilab. 1954NLDutch creator
- John Kilab. 1966NLDutch association football manager
- Jason Kilab. 1990PGPapua New Guinean cricketer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 854 | #13,455 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 55 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43 | #13,455 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 22 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kila mean, and where does it come from?
- Siva as KileSvara Mahadeva (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Kila?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɪɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kila have the most bearers?
- Kila is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled kila.
What do you want to know about Kila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kilaThe 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, “Kila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.