Girls' name · since 2001
Ilaya
Ilaya has 47 recorded births since 2001 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #35,686 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,176 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 47
- born since 2001
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Ilaya is the #8176 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 47 recorded since 2001.
Ilaya has 47 recorded births among girls since 2001, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8176 as of the latest data, more common than 53% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2001 to 2025.
- #35,686 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,176 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 47 born since 2001
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ilaya ranks #35,686 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,176 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 47 born since 2001, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,686 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,176 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 47
- born since 2001
- 2020s
- peak decade
Ilaya's 47 recorded births place it above 50.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Ilaya compares
47 15th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Ilaya's all-time total is 87% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Ilaya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 47 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Ilaya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Ilaya splits its recorded history at 2020: 66% of all births land in the more recent half, 34% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2003 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 13 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Ilaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2001–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
Ilaya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (31 births, 66% of the file).
2020s was Ilaya's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 66% of all-time use.
Ilaya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
31 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 31 births (66% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Ilaya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2001–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ilaya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.