How rare is the name Ileana?

10,619 people in the United States have the first name Ileana, about 1 in 28,443. It ranks #2,364 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ILEANA

#2,364

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,619
About
1 in 28,443
This common or more
79.5%
Who bears it

Of the 10,619 people named Ileana, 87.4% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 10.2% as White and 1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ileana peaked in 1991, when 141 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19182025
Peak year
1991
Births that year
141
In 2025*
50 ▼65%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,617 babies have been given the name since 1918. 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.

Ileana by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #2,346. The largest share of babies named Ileana, 27.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#11,6155
1920s#5,022110
1930s#7,25238
1940s#8,55327
1950s#4,143182
1960s#2,465547
1970s#2,951505
1980s#2,782687
1990s#2,3461,232
2000s#3,499931
2010s#3,888876
2020s#4,141477
Greatest Generation 1901–271.6%
Silent Generation 1928–451.2%
Baby boom 1946–648.7%
Generation X 1965–8014.5%
Millennials 1981–9626.9%
Generation Z 1997–1227.7%
2013 and later19.4%

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 Ileana is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ileana has been most common in Florida (3.7×), Texas (3.3×), and California (3.1×), and least common in Illinois (0.62×).

3,707 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.

Either side of Ileana

#2,362 Cherry · 10,641#2,363 Tyree · 10,621#2,365 Erich · 10,617#2,366 Lucio · 10,616

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,929 Iliana · 14,616#3,512 Ilana · 5,890#12,629 Ilyana · 980#17,761 Ilena · 615#21,819 Ilean · 462#22,912 Illeana · 431#27,579 Illana · 331#29,557 Ileanna · 299

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