Illyana
Illyana was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,696 among girls’ names; 706 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Illyana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Illyana?
#4,696 among girls’ names, 2025
Illyana rose from #5,355 in 2015 to #4,696 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 18.0 per million.
36 babies in 2012, the peak
Illyana peaked in 2012, when 36 girls were given it, #4,162 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,696 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,067 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,044 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,221 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,889 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,373 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,015 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,861 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,428 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,049 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,355 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,820 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,689 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,162 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,396 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,741 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,302 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,799 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,432 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,720 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,624 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,973 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,169 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,066 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,387 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,785 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,832 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,830 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,577 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,774 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,268 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,912 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,060 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,104 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Illyana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Illyana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Illyana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Illyana, and how old are they?
An estimated 700 Americans named Illyana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 508 people named Illyana (507 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Illyana?
Illyana is a less common spelling of Iliana: SSA has recorded 706 Illyana and 13,339 Iliana since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,845 babies since 1880, Illyana is the sixth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 722 babies (4.0%), again the sixth 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 Illyana
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 Illyana and names like it
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