Ilana

Where Ilana comes from

The dictionaries list Ilana as a given name — a female given name, variant of Alana — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,994 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Peak, #1,182
    123 babies named Ilana — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Alana
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Ilana hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.