Ilan
Ilan was given to 124 boys in 2025, #1,445 among boys’ names; 3,290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,220 Americans named Ilan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ilan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ilan is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “tree, oak tree” (אִילָן).
From Hebrew אִילָן (Ilán, “tree, oak tree”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ilan?
#1,445 among boys’ names, 2025
Ilan rose from #1,592 in 2015 to #1,445 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 52.7 to 72.6 per million.
153 babies in 2023, the peak
Ilan peaked in 2023, when 153 boys were given it, #1,262 among boys’ names. The 124 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124 | #1,445 | 72.6 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,448 | 72.6 |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,262 | 89.4 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,658 | 59.6 |
| 2021 | 133 | #1,381 | 76.0 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,350 | 76.5 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,425 | 68.6 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,549 | 60.0 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,471 | 62.1 |
| 2016 | 107 | #1,549 | 56.4 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,592 | 52.7 |
| 2014 | 86 | #1,756 | 44.8 |
| 2013 | 89 | #1,676 | 47.1 |
| 2012 | 95 | #1,629 | 50.1 |
| 2011 | 93 | #1,639 | 49.0 |
| 2010 | 84 | #1,769 | 43.8 |
| 2009 | 99 | #1,607 | 49.9 |
| 2008 | 100 | #1,586 | 49.0 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,389 | 56.9 |
| 2006 | 72 | #1,881 | 35.0 |
| 2005 | 66 | #1,926 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,765 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 134 | #1,132 | 67.8 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,839 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,640 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,308 | 21.4 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,277 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,572 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,568 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,264 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,709 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,270 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,601 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,384 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,770 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,809 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,637 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,791 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,185 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,631 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,757 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,118 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,977 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,545 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,230 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,773 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,196 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,602 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,968 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,278 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,683 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,600 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,642 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,898 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,778 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,673 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,172 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,493 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,098 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,195 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,152 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,290 Americans recorded as Ilan, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 124 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ilan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilan, and how old are they?
3,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,290 Americans ever recorded as Ilan. The median Ilan alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,084 people named Ilan (136 women and girls, 2,948 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,501 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 168 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 376 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,530 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Ilan born?
The states with the most babies named Ilan are Texas, New York and California, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #990 | 0.8× |
| New York | 14 | #932 | 3.0× |
| California | 13 | #1,387 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,292 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #795 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,027 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,364 | 0.6× |
Where Ilan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ilan is most over-represented in New York: since 1965 it was given 3.0 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 boys’ 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 Ilan 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 377,608 babies since 1880, Ilan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 2,320 babies (5.3%), the second 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 Ilan
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 Ilan and names like it
- Compare Ilan and AlanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIlan peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilan since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Ilan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Ilan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ilan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.