girls:
5.5k births since 1946
#2246 (61st percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1946
#3662 (53rd percentile)
The name Ilana is the #3,662 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,529 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 52.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,246 (60.7% percentile) for all time with 5,529 births since 1946.
Ilana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946). Birth data for Ilana is available in 74 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ilana reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 15.2% percentile (ranked #729) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 69 births per million (ranked 14.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ilana ranks #872 for girls (7.9% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 66.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ilana".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Ilana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.1% confident that Ilana is pronounced as ih-LAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LAH-nuh, at 23.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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