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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]
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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.
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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.
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Can also can be a diminutive of Cyrilla.
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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.
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The name Rilla is old German and means brook or babbling brook.
This variation is pronounced Rill-ah.
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This variation is pronounced Rill-ah.
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Cute! It reminds me of Rilla Blythe, Anne of Green Gables' daughter.
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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.
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It seems like this name would be pronounced RILL-lah, and not RYE-lah; the latter is prettier, though.
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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.
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"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.
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The name of a character in the 'Anne of Green Gables' books. Rilla is Anne's youngest child, and her name was a shortened version of Marilla.
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Rilla is also part of the title of one of the Anne of Green Gables books: 'Rilla of Ingleside'. The book is about Anne's daughter.
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