Hilla
Fewer than 30 women in Poland carry it, all of them female, and no girl has been given it in years. A Hebrew name that also reads as the Finnish word for cloudberry.
Hilla Pronunciation
Hilla is pronounced KHEEL-lah (/ˈxilla/).
What Hilla means
Where Hilla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hilla has a Hebrew origin. It belongs with the name Hila, drawn from the root halal, meaning to praise and to shine. Hebrew readers hear halo or radiance in it, the bright ring around a lamp or the moon.
In Finnish, hilla is a berry. The word names the cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus, the amber fruit that Poles call moroszka. In Lapland hilla is the ordinary word for it, while southern Finland says lakka. So one small name reaches from a Hebrew word for light to a berry ripening on a northern bog.
Picture a class register in Gdańsk with a single Hilla among the Zuzannas. The name holds a Hebrew root and a Finnish fruit at once. Nothing about it announces where it came from. Read one way, Hilla points back to the Hebrew halal and its halo. Read another way, it is the moroszka, the cloudberry of the far north.
How many people are named Hilla
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Hilla. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7657 among female names.