Ilian
Ilian was given to 57 boys in 2025, #2,404 among boys’ names; 365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ilian?
#2,404 among boys’ names, 2025
Ilian rose from #9,950 in 2015 to #2,404 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 33.4 per million.
57 babies in 2025, the peak
Ilian peaked in 2025, when 57 boys were given it, #2,404 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 35 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 57 | #2,404 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 35 | #3,356 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 23 | #4,513 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 18 | #5,287 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 14 | #6,148 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 17 | #5,328 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,469 | 21 | #4,688 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,600 | 18 | #5,170 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 12 | #6,850 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,061 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #9,950 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #11,237 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 12 | #6,758 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 9 | #8,313 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #9,103 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #10,249 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 8 | #9,308 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,450 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,161 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #12,101 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,422 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,542 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,406 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,165 | 8 | #7,815 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,831 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,025 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,396 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,314 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ilian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 365 Americans recorded as Ilian, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 57 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 Ilian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilian, and how old are they?
An estimated 362 Americans named Ilian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 2 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 512 people named Ilian (213 women and girls, 299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,775 babies since 1880, Ilian is the second most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 198 babies (29%), again the second most given.
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 Ilian
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 Ilian and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ilian.
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