Meaning not yet researched.
Ily: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,496 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,496 in 2022; #3,311 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ily in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,311 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,496.
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Ily: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,496 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 72 (2022).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Ily, making it the 3,311th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #3,305 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 48 girls named Ily in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,496, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 72. For comparison, it was #2,512 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ily in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 995 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 544 babies named Ily.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 503 US girls were named Ily; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eli (154,512 babies since 1880), Ely (5,087 babies since 1880), Elly (4,595 babies since 1880) and Ilya (1,226 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 Ily 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 | 47 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,016 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,576 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,020 | — | — |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,992 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,015 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,184 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,915 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,409 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,189 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,292 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,417 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,175 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,582 | — | — |
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).