I'm surprised I'm the first person to point this out but Go-Rilla :P.
― Anonymous User 7/14/2024
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My name is Rilla and it is not short for anything. I've heard it means a small brook. Also it comes from the book Anne of Green Gables. [noted -ed]
― Anonymous User 9/1/2022
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It is pronounced Rill-uh in North America. It was a very trendy name 1850-1880. I've got a few in my family tree, but I have quite a few names that others might find peculiar in my family tree as well lol.
My name is Rilla. It’s not short for anything. I have only personally known one other Rilla and that was my Aunt Rilla. It’s a unique name that always made me stand out.
A short form of Marilla, a form of Muriel, meaning "bright sea." Maxilla Cuthbert is a character in L. M. Montgomery's Anne books. Rilla Blythe in those books is named after Marilla.
Gorgeous name. Unique and individual without being perceived as strange in any way. It's cute on a little girl, yet Grandma Rilla, Aunt Rilla or Dr. Rilla is easy to imagine too.
Rilla is probably most often a short form of Marilla, which is itself a short form of Amarilla, which is a Latinate form of Amaryllis which was regularly used in the USA and Canada during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. [noted -ed]
"Rilla" is the name of the highest Bulgarian mountain. Its highest peak - "Musala" (the stress is on the "u"), which is 2925 m, is the highest on the Balkan Peninsula.