Meaning not yet researched.
Ilana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,184 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,184 in 1987; #2,496 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ilana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,496 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,184.
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Ilana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,184 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 135 (1992).
In 2025, 71 US girls were named Ilana, making it the 2,496th most common girls’ name of the year, down 50 places from #2,446 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 74 girls named Ilana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,184, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 135, in 1992. For comparison, it was #2,267 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilana in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 7 babies. In all, 5,678 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,211 babies named Ilana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 844 US girls were named Ilana; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ilana ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,194 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lana (57,449 babies since 1880), Liana (20,666 babies since 1880), Ilona (3,332 babies since 1880) and Elena (108,117 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 Ilana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,194 | #1,170 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,294 | #1,156 |
| California | 8 | #2,362 | #2,576 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,504 | #2,107 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2003 | 128 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1994 | 116 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1992 | 135 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1990 | 125 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1989 | 125 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1988 | 119 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1984 | 91 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1983 | 101 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1981 | 97 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1980 | 78 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1978 | 85 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1977 | 73 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,449 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,539 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,184 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,164 | — | — |
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).