Ilene
Ilene was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,201 among girls’ names; 17,840 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,580 Americans named Ilene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 51 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ilene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ilene is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ilene?
#6,201 among girls’ names, 2025
Ilene fell from #4,250 in 2015 to #6,201 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 11.8 per million.
453 babies in 1950, the peak
Ilene peaked in 1950, when 453 girls were given it, #379 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,201 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,684 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,299 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,824 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,779 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,348 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,144 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,860 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,134 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,191 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (132)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,250 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,801 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,365 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,551 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,868 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,771 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,047 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,814 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,579 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,494 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,023 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,565 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,445 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,944 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,573 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,378 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,077 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,067 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,672 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,103 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,461 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,250 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,446 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,227 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 65 | #2,075 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,179 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,965 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 59 | #2,017 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,884 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,789 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,655 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,734 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,718 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,930 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,721 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,947 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,819 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,617 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,909 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,467 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,646 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,672 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,408 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,265 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 93 | #1,214 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 112 | #1,078 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,011 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 132 | #901 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 153 | #808 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 144 | #831 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 184 | #734 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 206 | #722 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 180 | #770 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 248 | #641 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 230 | #685 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 275 | #597 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 267 | #611 | 0.13 |
| 1958 | 293 | #578 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 306 | #547 | 0.15 |
| 1956 | 301 | #541 | 0.15 |
| 1955 | 324 | #514 | 0.17 |
| 1954 | 346 | #479 | 0.18 |
| 1953 | 334 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1952 | 383 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1951 | 425 | #397 | 0.24 |
| 1950 | 453 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1949 | 385 | #408 | 0.23 |
| 1948 | 404 | #394 | 0.24 |
| 1947 | 413 | #393 | 0.23 |
| 1946 | 386 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1945 | 313 | #400 | 0.24 |
| 1944 | 280 | #428 | 0.21 |
| 1943 | 272 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1942 | 287 | #426 | 0.21 |
| 1941 | 235 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1940 | 227 | #451 | 0.20 |
| 1939 | 283 | #397 | 0.26 |
| 1938 | 343 | #347 | 0.31 |
| 1937 | 248 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1936 | 263 | #392 | 0.25 |
| 1935 | 219 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1934 | 224 | #435 | 0.21 |
| 1933 | 242 | #411 | 0.24 |
| 1932 | 222 | #445 | 0.21 |
| 1931 | 284 | #386 | 0.27 |
| 1930 | 257 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1929 | 251 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1928 | 272 | #411 | 0.24 |
| 1927 | 327 | #379 | 0.27 |
| 1926 | 313 | #386 | 0.26 |
| 1925 | 271 | #418 | 0.22 |
| 1924 | 275 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1923 | 242 | #435 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 241 | #428 | 0.20 |
| 1921 | 222 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1920 | 192 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1919 | 206 | #463 | 0.18 |
| 1918 | 186 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 152 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1916 | 138 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1915 | 128 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1914 | 83 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 63 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 42 | #772 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 34 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 33 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 24 | #836 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 24 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 22 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 18 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 17 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 14 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 13 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,037 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,642 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 12 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,496 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 132 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilene, and how old are they?
9,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 54% of the 17,840 Americans ever recorded as Ilene. The median Ilene alive today is 68 years old; half are between 51 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 11,080 people named Ilene (11,063 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,988 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,430 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,670 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 857 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 914 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 299 |
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 Ilene born?
The states with the most babies named Ilene are New York, California and Michigan, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,852 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 1,858 | #2,906 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 1,526 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 889 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 840 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 459 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 425 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Iowa | 378 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 378 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 339 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Ilene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ilene is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.4 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 Ilene 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 34,742 babies since 1880, Ilene is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 298 babies (6.4%), 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 Ilene
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 Ilene and names like it
- Compare Ilene and IlanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sIlene peaked in 1950.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilene since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Ilene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ilene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with IMost given first.