How rare is the name Ilse?

4,972 people in the United States have the first name Ilse, about 1 in 60,746. It ranks #3,928 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ILSE

#3,928

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,972
About
1 in 60,746
This common or more
83.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,972 people named Ilse, 53.9% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 43.5% as White and 1.3% 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.

Ilse peaked in 1993, when 103 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19142025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
103
In 2025*
37 ▼64%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 2,401 babies have been given the name since 1914. 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.

Ilse by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #3,331. The largest share of babies named Ilse, 35.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#6,14445
1920s#6,67066
1930s#4,76598
1940s#8,55327
1950s#7,22166
1960s#7,12484
1970s#11,35956
1980s#7,384160
1990s#3,331720
2000s#5,201527
2010s#7,393337
2020s#7,044215
Greatest Generation 1901–273.7%
Silent Generation 1928–455.7%
Baby boom 1946–644.8%
Generation X 1965–804.6%
Millennials 1981–9627.9%
Generation Z 1997–1235.1%
2013 and later18.2%

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 Ilse is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ilse has been most common in Texas (5.7×), Arizona (4.5×), and California (4.3×), and least common in New York (0.38×).

1,211 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 Ilse

#3,925 Olena · 4,978#3,927 Maha · 4,977#3,929 Silvestre · 4,967#3,930 Odell · 4,966

Spelled almost the same

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

#9,795 Ilsa · 1,398#23,767 Ilyse · 410#25,276 Ilze · 376#37,508 Ilce · 208#38,539 Ilsy · 199#47,349 Ilise · 138

Also a last name

As a last name, Ilse ranks #83,139 of 156,621, with 244 people. See Ilse as a last name

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