How rare is the name Ilana?

5,890 people in the United States have the first name Ilana, about 1 in 51,279. It ranks #3,512 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

ILANA

#3,512

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,890
About
1 in 51,279
This common or more
82.5%
Who bears it

Of the 5,890 people named Ilana, 76.2% reported their origin as White, 12% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ilana peaked in 1992, when 135 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19462025
Peak year
1992
Births that year
135
In 2025*
71 ▼47%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,678 babies have been given the name since 1946. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ilana by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #2,144. The largest share of babies named Ilana, 31.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#10,47012
1950s#7,36763
1960s#3,744264
1970s#2,696580
1980s#2,1441,032
1990s#2,3721,211
2000s#3,0261,148
2010s#3,917868
2020s#4,002500
Baby boom 1946–642.9%
Generation X 1965–8014.7%
Millennials 1981–9631.5%
Generation Z 1997–1231.5%
2013 and later19.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ilana is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ilana has been most common in New York (5.1×), New Jersey (2.8×), and Florida (2.2×), and least common in Ohio (0.19×).

3,490 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Ilana

2 other first names also have 5,890 people.

#3,512 Ewa · 5,890#3,512 Lakshmi · 5,890

Either side of Ilana

#3,511 Deepak · 5,891#3,512 Ewa · 5,890#3,512 Lakshmi · 5,890#3,515 Marilou · 5,888

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ilana, most common first.

#1,929 Iliana · 14,616#2,364 Ileana · 10,619#3,519 Ilona · 5,882#5,529 Ilan · 3,084#12,629 Ilyana · 980#17,761 Ilena · 615#26,915 Ilani · 343#27,579 Illana · 331

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