Boys' name · since 2021
Ilkay
Ilkay has 17 recorded births since 2021 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #30,148 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 17
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
17 boys have been named Ilkay since 2021, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Ilkay has 17 recorded births among boys since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, 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 2021 to 2024.
- #30,148 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 17 born since 2021
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ilkay ranks #30,148 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 17 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.
- #30,148 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 17
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Ilkay's 17 recorded births place it above 32.96% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Ilkay's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Ilkay's full recorded timeline at 2022, 71% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 29% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2021, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2022 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Ilkay popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2024
- Peak year (2022)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Ilkay by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (17 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Ilkay's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Ilkay births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 17 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Ilkay: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2022)
Similar record span (~3 yrs)
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, 2021–2024 (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 Ilkay 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.