Meaning not yet researched.
Ilan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 124 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,133 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,133 in 2003; #1,445 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ilan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,445 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,133.
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Ilan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 124 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,133 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 153 (2023).
In 2025, 124 US boys were named Ilan, making it the 1,445th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3 places from #1,448 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 125 boys named Ilan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,133, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 153, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,592 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilan in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 5 babies. In all, 3,290 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,038 babies named Ilan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,225 US boys were named Ilan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 153. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,775 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ilan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #795 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elan (4,331 babies since 1880), Ilene (17,840 babies since 1880), Elian (15,380 babies since 1880) and Elin (5,204 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 Ilan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #795 | #904 |
| New York | 14 | #932 | #1,035 |
| Texas | 24 | #990 | #1,486 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,027 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,292 | #1,434 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,364 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,387 | #973 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 124 | #1,445 |
| 2024 | — | — | 125 | #1,448 |
| 2023 | — | — | 153 | #1,262 |
| 2022 | — | — | 104 | #1,658 |
| 2021 | — | — | 133 | #1,381 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,104 | 132 | #1,350 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,972 | 123 | #1,425 |
| 2018 | — | — | 109 | #1,549 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,831 | 115 | #1,471 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,211 | 107 | #1,549 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,479 | 101 | #1,592 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,452 | 86 | #1,756 |
| 2013 | — | — | 89 | #1,677 |
| 2012 | — | — | 95 | #1,630 |
| 2011 | — | — | 93 | #1,639 |
| 2010 | — | — | 84 | #1,770 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,359 | 99 | #1,608 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,573 | 100 | #1,586 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,476 | 118 | #1,389 |
| 2006 | — | — | 72 | #1,882 |
| 2005 | — | — | 66 | #1,930 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,768 |
| 2003 | — | — | 134 | #1,133 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,843 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,645 |
| 2000 | — | — | 42 | #2,312 |
| 1999 | — | — | 40 | #2,280 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,575 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,572 |
| 1996 | — | — | 36 | #2,269 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,714 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,275 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,607 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,390 |
| 1991 | — | — | 24 | #2,776 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,815 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,643 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,796 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,189 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,634 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,759 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,119 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #1,978 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,546 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,231 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,774 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,198 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,603 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,969 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,279 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,685 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,602 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,644 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,900 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,780 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,674 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,173 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,494 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,099 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,196 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,153 |
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).