Ileana
#3,167 for girls in 2025, 50 births
- Peak · girls
- 1926 · 44 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,617since 1918
Ileana over time
Rank among girls' names. Ileana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,167 | 50 |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 |
| 2023 | #2,156 | 88 |
| 2022 | #2,006 | 97 |
| 2021 | #2,233 | 83 |
| 2020 | #2,170 | 83 |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 |
| 2018 | #1,937 | 102 |
| 2017 | #2,160 | 88 |
| 2016 | #2,054 | 96 |
| 2015 | #2,736 | 64 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 88 |
| 2013 | #2,064 | 93 |
| 2012 | #2,315 | 81 |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 |
| 2009 | #2,548 | 73 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 |
| 2007 | #1,940 | 106 |
| 2006 | #1,894 | 107 |
| 2005 | #1,993 | 95 |
| 2004 | #2,286 | 76 |
| 2003 | #2,048 | 87 |
| 2002 | #1,887 | 94 |
| 2001 | #1,872 | 93 |
| 2000 | #1,659 | 106 |
| 1999 | #1,442 | 121 |
| 1998 | #1,443 | 118 |
| 1997 | #1,395 | 121 |
| 1996 | #1,551 | 102 |
| 1995 | #1,492 | 106 |
| 1994 | #1,357 | 123 |
| 1993 | #1,299 | 130 |
| 1992 | #1,294 | 131 |
| 1991 | #1,219 | 141 |
| 1990 | #1,214 | 139 |
| 1989 | #1,187 | 137 |
| 1988 | #1,614 | 80 |
| 1987 | #1,630 | 75 |
| 1986 | #1,620 | 73 |
| 1985 | #1,928 | 57 |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 |
| 1983 | #1,770 | 60 |
| 1982 | #1,735 | 64 |
| 1981 | #2,028 | 51 |
| 1980 | #2,128 | 48 |
| 1979 | #2,147 | 46 |
| 1978 | #2,012 | 47 |
| 1977 | #1,576 | 68 |
| 1976 | #1,840 | 50 |
| 1975 | #1,689 | 56 |
| 1974 | #1,772 | 50 |
| 1973 | #1,607 | 57 |
| 1972 | #2,093 | 37 |
| 1971 | #2,247 | 35 |
| 1970 | #1,599 | 59 |
| 1969 | #1,572 | 57 |
| 1968 | #1,387 | 65 |
| 1967 | #1,399 | 62 |
| 1966 | #1,715 | 43 |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 |
| 1964 | #1,419 | 63 |
| 1963 | #1,565 | 52 |
| 1962 | #1,395 | 63 |
| 1961 | #1,465 | 58 |
| 1960 | #1,597 | 49 |
| 1959 | #1,918 | 34 |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 |
| 1956 | #2,058 | 28 |
| 1955 | #2,280 | 23 |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
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| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 |
| 1929 | #2,191 | 15 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | #1,456 | 31 |
| 1926 | #1,148 | 44 |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ileana! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1923, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ileana is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#608 · 1 in 3,510
- Florida#658 · 1 in 4,585
- Texas#822 · 1 in 6,082
- California#823 · 1 in 6,367
- Illinois#1,266 · 1 in 11,653
Best ever in a state: #421 in Florida, 1962.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #608 | 8 | 1 in 3,510 |
| Florida | #658 | 16 | 1 in 4,585 |
| Texas | #822 | 23 | 1 in 6,082 |
| California | #823 | 35 | 1 in 6,367 |
| Illinois | #1,266 | 6 | 1 in 11,653 |
| New York | #1,695 | 6 | 1 in 16,834 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ileana
- 778 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #3,167)
- 997 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #3,167)
- 431 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #3,167)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1926 at #1,148 (44 births)
- Births halved by 1928, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,298 girls born in 1991 were named Ileana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,145 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,148 in 1926, was only 1 in 26,941 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.9% of all girls named Ileana (1,232) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 110 | #1,148 (1926) | #2,849 |
| 1930s | 38 | #2,023 (1930) | #3,240 |
| 1940s | 27 | #3,350 (1948) | #4,252 |
| 1950s | 182 | #1,918 (1959) | #2,910 |
| 1960s | 547 | #1,387 (1968) | #1,546 |
| 1970s | 505 | #1,576 (1977) | #1,858 |
| 1980s | 687 | #1,187 (1989) | #1,794 |
| 1990s | 1,232 | #1,214 (1990) | #1,371 |
| 2000s | 931 | #1,659 (2000) | #2,026 |
| 2010s | 876 | #1,937 (2018) | #2,190 |
| 2020s | 477 | #2,006 (2022) | #2,354 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ileana in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 14,386 of them was named Ileana, which outranked 91.4% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,390Laci122
- #1,390Magaly122
- #1,390Mercedez122
- #1,395Ileana121
- #1,395Bailie121
- #1,395Rubi121
- #1,395Tricia121
- #1,400Bryce120
- #1,400Christal120
- #1,400Frankie120
Tied with 4 names at #1,395; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.