Meaning not yet researched.
Ilse: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,516 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,516 in 1994; #3,937 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ilse in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,937 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #1,516.
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Ilse: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,516 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 103 (1994).
In 2025, 37 US girls were named Ilse, making it the 3,937th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,012 places from #4,949 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 27 girls named Ilse in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,516, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #4,338 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilse in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 10 babies. In all, 2,401 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 720 babies named Ilse.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 332 US girls were named Ilse; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,440 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elizabeth (1,693,973 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880), Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880) and Isabella (417,454 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 Dutch, Estonian, German and Swedish. 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 Ilse 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 | 37 | #3,937 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,949 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,796 | — | — |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,386 | — | — |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,739 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,354 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,572 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,421 | — | — |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,628 | — | — |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,673 | — | — |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,272 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,625 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,642 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,864 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,633 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,437 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,989 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,194 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,826 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,436 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,054 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,644 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,218 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,854 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,674 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,028 | — | — |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,667 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,620 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,036 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,540 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,905 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,893 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,263 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,237 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,844 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,599 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,152 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,812 | — | — |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,338 | — | — |
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).