Ilai is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ila, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ilai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,080 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,080 in 2023; #4,448 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ilai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,448 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #3,080.
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Ilai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,080 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 40 (2023).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Ilai, making it the 4,448th most common boys’ name of the year, up 171 places from #4,619 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 22 boys named Ilai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,080, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #6,469 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilai in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 7 babies. In all, 253 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 136 babies named Ilai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 177 US boys were named Ilai; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys 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).
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.
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 Ilai 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.
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).