Ileana
Ileana was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,180 among girls’ names; 5,617 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,260 Americans named Ileana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 16 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ileana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ileana mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Ileana is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen”
From Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Elena.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ileana?
#3,180 among girls’ names, 2025
Ileana fell from #2,755 in 2015 to #3,180 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 31.1 per million.
141 babies in 1991, the peak
Ileana peaked in 1991, when 141 girls were given it, #1,218 among girls’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,180 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,397 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,162 | 54.8 |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,012 | 59.1 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,239 | 50.6 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,180 | 51.3 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,241 | 48.9 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,944 | 60.0 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,170 | 51.0 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,060 | 54.2 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,755 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,159 | 49.3 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,071 | 53.0 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,323 | 46.0 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,164 | 50.0 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,098 | 52.9 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,552 | 39.7 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,143 | 49.7 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,945 | 55.1 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,900 | 56.3 |
| 2005 | 95 | #1,994 | 51.4 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,294 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,047 | 47.6 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,887 | 52.3 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,875 | 51.6 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,662 | 58.4 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,442 | 68.2 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,445 | 66.8 |
| 1997 | 121 | #1,394 | 69.5 |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,551 | 58.2 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,493 | 60.3 |
| 1994 | 123 | #1,357 | 68.9 |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,301 | 71.9 |
| 1992 | 131 | #1,294 | 71.0 |
| 1991 | 141 | #1,218 | 75.2 |
| 1990 | 139 | #1,211 | 73.2 |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,185 | 74.3 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,620 | 44.9 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,634 | 43.1 |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,628 | 42.6 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,933 | 33.1 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,317 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,777 | 35.9 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,743 | 37.8 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,036 | 30.6 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,134 | 28.9 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,159 | 28.7 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,021 | 30.7 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,581 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,850 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,693 | 38.4 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,781 | 34.1 |
| 1973 | 57 | #1,613 | 39.1 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,109 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,266 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,607 | 33.8 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,577 | 33.8 |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,392 | 39.6 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,405 | 37.6 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,720 | 25.4 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,960 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 63 | #1,426 | 33.2 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,570 | 27.0 |
| 1962 | 63 | #1,400 | 32.0 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,469 | 28.7 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,604 | 24.2 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,933 | 16.8 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,793 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,760 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,068 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,299 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,734 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,989 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,721 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,736 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,785 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,914 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,441 | 5.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,235 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,234 | 4.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,576 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,116 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,867 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,056 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,239 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,576 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,468 | 26.0 |
| 1926 | 44 | #1,156 | 37.1 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,660 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,716 | 4.8 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,156 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ileana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ileana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ileana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ileana, and how old are they?
5,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 5,617 Americans ever recorded as Ileana. The median Ileana alive today is 30 years old; half are between 16 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 10,619 people named Ileana (10,597 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,887 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 403 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 757 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Ileana born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,957 | 1.9× |
Where Ileana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ileana is most over-represented in New York: since 1918 it was given 2.1 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 Ileana 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 50,528 babies since 1880, Ileana is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 744 babies (6.7%), the fifth 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 Ileana
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 Ileana and names like it
- Compare Ileana and IleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sIleana peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ileana since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Ileana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Ileana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ileana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.