Ilah
Ilah was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,046 among girls’ names; 1,788 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ilah?
#3,046 among girls’ names, 2025
Ilah rose from #5,190 in 2015 to #3,046 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 33.6 per million.
70 babies in 2022, the peak
Ilah peaked in 2022, when 70 girls were given it, #2,538 among girls’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,046 | 33.6 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,989 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,026 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,538 | 42.7 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,015 | 33.5 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,796 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,522 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,365 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,427 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,514 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,190 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,213 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,717 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,302 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,272 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,025 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,394 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,677 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,698 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,818 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,238 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,974 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,108 | 4.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,153 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,720 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,832 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,055 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,930 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,735 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,481 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,705 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,636 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,496 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,840 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,129 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,286 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,736 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,058 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,484 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,494 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,242 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,320 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,957 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,349 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,096 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,070 | 15.0 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,767 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,054 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,353 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,521 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,221 | 34.4 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,557 | 23.6 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,426 | 27.1 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,454 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,134 | 38.1 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,444 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,191 | 34.1 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,293 | 30.0 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,335 | 30.1 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,345 | 28.5 |
| 1917 | 44 | #1,068 | 40.7 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,259 | 31.6 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,105 | 38.6 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,209 | 34.1 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,052 | 43.2 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,231 | 34.0 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,857 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,465 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,078 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,604 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 18 | #905 | 56.5 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,123 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,122 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,204 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,163 | 38.2 |
| 1902 | 13 | #993 | 49.2 |
| 1901 | 13 | #938 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,496 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 12 | #950 | 51.5 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,308 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,319 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,687 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,084 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,099 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,233 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 10 | #982 | 47.1 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,263 | 32.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilah, and how old are they?
An estimated 810 Americans named Ilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 589 people named Ilah (585 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 553 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ilah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 8 | #1,068 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,503 | 0.2× |
Where Ilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ilah is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ilah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,263 babies since 1880, Ilah is the fifth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 1,181 babies (4.6%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ilah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ilah and names like it
- Compare Ilah and IlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIlah peaked in 2022.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ilah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ilah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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