Ilona
#3,832 for girls in 2025, 38 births
- Peak · girls
- 1946 · 102 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,332since 1909
Ilona over time
Rank among girls' names. Ilona has never cracked the top 800 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 | #3,832 | 38 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 |
| 1984 | #3,329 | 25 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 |
| 1979 | #3,541 | 22 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 |
| 1971 | #2,542 | 29 |
| 1970 | #2,043 | 40 |
| 1969 | #2,254 | 32 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 |
| 1967 | #1,751 | 43 |
| 1966 | #2,147 | 30 |
| 1965 | #1,993 | 34 |
| 1964 | #1,918 | 38 |
| 1963 | #1,598 | 50 |
| 1962 | #2,073 | 32 |
| 1961 | #1,580 | 51 |
| 1960 | #1,925 | 35 |
| 1959 | #1,741 | 40 |
| 1958 | #1,588 | 45 |
| 1957 | #1,458 | 53 |
| 1956 | #1,453 | 53 |
| 1955 | #1,556 | 43 |
| 1954 | #1,285 | 59 |
| 1953 | #1,213 | 63 |
| 1952 | #1,088 | 75 |
| 1951 | #1,133 | 68 |
| 1950 | #1,082 | 72 |
| 1949 | #1,050 | 73 |
| 1948 | #1,209 | 56 |
| 1947 | #875 | 101 |
| 1946 | #818 | 102 |
| 1945 | #1,032 | 56 |
| 1944 | #1,079 | 52 |
| 1943 | #856 | 83 |
| 1942 | #844 | 82 |
| 1941 | #961 | 58 |
| 1940 | #820 | 75 |
| 1939 | #1,378 | 29 |
| 1938 | #1,805 | 19 |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | #2,581 | 11 |
| 1930 | #2,690 | 11 |
| 1929 | #2,921 | 10 |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 |
| 1927 | #2,026 | 19 |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 |
| 1922 | #2,387 | 15 |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
| 1918 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,100 | 16 |
| 1916 | #2,658 | 11 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 |
| 1912 | #2,144 | 8 |
| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 |
| 1910 | #2,140 | 6 |
| 1909 | #2,208 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ilona! It came in at #2,208, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ilona
- 940 spots since 2024 (#4,772 → #3,832)
- 1,336 spots since 2020 (#5,168 → #3,832)
- 237 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #3,832)
- Biggest jump: 558 spots in 1940 (#1,378 → #820)
- Biggest drop: 334 spots in 1948 (#875 → #1,209)
- Debuted 1909
- Peaked 1946 at #818 (102 births)
- Births halved by 1955, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1940–1943
- Highest: 1 in 15,247 girls born in 1940 were named Ilona (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,297 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #818 in 1946, was only 1 in 15,405 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.1% of all girls named Ilona (738) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #2,208 (1909) | #2,208 |
| 1910s | 77 | #2,100 (1917) | #2,591 |
| 1920s | 106 | #2,026 (1927) | #3,111 |
| 1930s | 113 | #1,378 (1939) | #2,983 |
| 1940s | 738 | #818 (1946) | #954 |
| 1950s | 571 | #1,082 (1950) | #1,360 |
| 1960s | 374 | #1,580 (1961) | #1,949 |
| 1970s | 259 | #2,043 (1970) | #2,963 |
| 1980s | 174 | #3,329 (1984) | #4,770 |
| 1990s | 209 | #3,623 (1990) | #4,870 |
| 2000s | 282 | #3,876 (2005) | #4,791 |
| 2010s | 276 | #4,069 (2015) | #5,043 |
| 2020s | 148 | #3,832 (2025) | #5,377 |
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.
Ilona in 1948
Top girls' names in 1948
More about 1948
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1,697,908 girls got a published name in 1948; 1 in 30,320 of them was named Ilona, which outranked 80.0% of the 6,040 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,197Marylee57
- #1,197Philomena57
- #1,197Selena57
- #1,209Ilona56
- #1,209Arla56
- #1,209Deidra56
- #1,209Dovie56
- #1,223Alvina55
- #1,223Angelia55
- #1,223Brinda55
Tied with 13 names at #1,209; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.