Meaning not yet researched.
Ilah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #905 in 1907.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #905 in 1907; #3,046 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ilah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,046 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1907, at #905.
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Ilah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 girls in 2025. Peak: #905 in 1907 · most girls in one year: 70 (2022).
In 2025, 54 US girls were named Ilah, making it the 3,046th most common girls’ name of the year, down 57 places from #2,989 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 55 girls named Ilah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #905, reached in 1907. The most girls given the name in a single year was 70, in 2022. For comparison, it was #5,192 in 2015 and #4,483 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilah in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 6 babies. In all, 1,788 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 351 babies named Ilah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 487 US girls were named Ilah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,764 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ila (25,120 babies since 1880), Iola (9,659 babies since 1880), Iyla (4,045 babies since 1880) and Ela (2,846 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ilayah and Ilaiah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ilayah (70), Ilaiah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ilah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,989 | — | — |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,429 | — | — |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,516 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,192 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,215 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,307 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,274 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,028 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,397 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,681 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,702 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,823 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,244 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,981 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,116 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,154 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,721 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,056 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,931 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,736 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,483 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,638 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1917 | 44 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1907 | 18 | #905 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1902 | 13 | #993 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #938 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #950 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1892 | 10 | #982 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,263 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).