Ilay is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Isla, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ilay: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,982 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Ilay in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,982 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ilay: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,982 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 27 (2025).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Ilay, making it the 3,982nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 502 places from #4,484 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 23 boys named Ilay in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,982, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #5,374 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilay in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 7 babies. In all, 215 US babies have been given the name, 3.3% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 113 babies named Ilay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 163 US boys were named Ilay; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Isla (58,271 babies since 1880), Ila (25,120 babies since 1880), Iola (9,659 babies since 1880) and Iyla (4,045 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 Ilay 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).