Ilyse
Ilyse was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 385 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilyse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ilyse?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,670, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1969, the peak
Ilyse peaked in 1969, when 17 girls were given it, #3,369 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,670 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,086 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,238 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,537 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,692 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,896 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,573 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,103 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,424 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,285 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 7 | #10,994 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,315 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,682 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,027 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,106 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,939 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,328 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,339 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,183 | 6.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,451 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,512 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,470 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,929 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,825 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,511 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,435 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,053 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,727 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,896 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,865 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,863 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,369 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,904 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,249 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,188 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,311 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,750 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,530 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,139 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,099 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,007 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,451 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,092 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,608 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,889 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,383 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,014 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,265 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilyse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilyse has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilyse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilyse, and how old are they?
An estimated 354 Americans named Ilyse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 36 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 410 people named Ilyse (410 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,664 babies since 1880, Ilyse is the fourth most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 59 babies recorded by SSA was a Ilyse (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ilyse
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 Ilyse and names like it
- Compare Ilyse and IlseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sIlyse peaked in 1969.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilyse since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Ilyse.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ilyse alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with IMost given first.