Ilia is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Eli, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ilia: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,430 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 62% of babies named Ilia in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,430 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ilia: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,430 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 56 (2025).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Ilia, making it the 2,430th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,931 places from #4,361 in 2024. That is 32 more than the 24 boys named Ilia in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,430, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 56. For comparison, it was #8,292 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Ilia, making it the 4,217th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,525 places from #7,742 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 14 girls named Ilia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,294, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #8,640 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilia in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 1,077 US babies have been given the name, 76% of them girls and 24% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 234 babies named Ilia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 155 US boys were named Ilia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ilia ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,808 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elia (10,159 babies since 1880), Ilya (1,226 babies since 1880), Eli (154,512 babies since 1880) and Elio (5,174 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 Ilia 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,808 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,860 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,901 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,217 | 56 | #2,430 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,742 | 24 | #4,361 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,768 | 16 | #5,759 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,291 | 6 | #11,401 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,504 | 9 | #8,429 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,612 | 5 | #12,804 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,810 | 8 | #9,205 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,912 | 12 | #6,860 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,571 | 12 | #6,853 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,159 | 7 | #10,065 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,640 | 9 | #8,292 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,078 | 7 | #10,037 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,107 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,433 | 6 | #11,324 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,567 | — | — |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,425 | 5 | #12,983 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,085 | 6 | #11,519 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,049 | 7 | #10,290 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,778 | 6 | #11,448 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,169 | 8 | #9,029 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,408 | 8 | #8,588 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,840 | 7 | #9,296 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,752 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,568 | 6 | #9,844 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,093 | 8 | #7,821 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,204 | 5 | #11,041 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,292 | 5 | #10,539 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,836 | 8 | #7,100 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,271 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,332 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,792 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,896 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,999 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,011 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,122 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,249 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,939 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,943 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,266 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,824 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,653 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,170 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,201 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,321 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,512 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,354 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,252 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,728 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,726 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,003 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,887 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,419 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,161 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,027 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,311 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,156 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,134 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,137 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,667 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,722 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,298 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,276 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,079 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,621 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,338 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,720 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,648 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,178 | — | — |
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).