Meaning not yet researched.
Ilona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #821 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #821 in 1946; #3,861 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ilona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,861 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #821.
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Ilona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 girls in 2025. Peak: #821 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 102 (1946).
In 2025, 38 US girls were named Ilona, making it the 3,861st most common girls’ name of the year, up 954 places from #4,815 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 28 girls named Ilona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #821, reached in 1946. That year also had the most girls given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #4,099 in 2015 and #1,086 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilona in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 3,332 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 738 babies named Ilona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 270 US girls were named Ilona; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,297 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Helena (40,412 babies since 1880), Ilana (5,678 babies since 1880), Ileana (5,617 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Ilona 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,815 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,769 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,704 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,262 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,222 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,702 | — | — |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,192 | — | — |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,551 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,896 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,307 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,625 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,160 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,184 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,690 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,504 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,291 | — | — |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,903 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,125 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,297 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,433 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,453 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,217 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,428 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,369 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,816 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,882 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,921 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,053 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,289 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,410 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,403 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,808 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,710 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,818 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,580 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,119 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1952 | 75 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1951 | 68 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1950 | 72 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1949 | 73 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1947 | 101 | #875 | — | — |
| 1946 | 102 | #821 | — | — |
| 1945 | 56 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1944 | 52 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1943 | 83 | #858 | — | — |
| 1942 | 82 | #848 | — | — |
| 1941 | 58 | #965 | — | — |
| 1940 | 75 | #824 | — | — |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,282 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,731 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,841 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,184 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,618 | — | — |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,994 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,362 | — | — |
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).