girls:
5.5k births since 1918
#2253 (61st percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1918
#3677 (52nd percentile)
The name Ileana is the #3,677 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,489 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 52.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,253 (60.6% percentile) for all time with 5,489 births since 1918.
Ileana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for girls in 1918). Birth data for Ileana is available in 89 out of the 106 years between 1918 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, Ileana reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 16.5% percentile (ranked #689) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 69 births per million (ranked 16.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ileana ranks #864 for girls (8.8% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 72.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ileana".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Ileana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.0% confident that Ileana is pronounced as ee-lee-AH-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LEE-uh-nuh, at 16.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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