Ilana — #2469 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ilana

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,604 babies named Ilana between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ilana currently holds the #2469 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 135 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ilana performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,211 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ilana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,383 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Ilana in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ilana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,604 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.