Illinois

girls:

11 births since 1918

#5705 (0th percentile)

boys:

5 births since 1923

#4581 (0th percentile)

overall:

16 births since 1918

#7723 (0th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Illinois".

1918 1923 19181923

Key Statistics

Total Births
11
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
0.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#590
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
5
Peak Births
5
Peak Year
1923
First Recorded
1923
Peak Percentile
0.0%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#551
Current Rank
#551
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Illinois

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Illinois. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 55.1% confident that Illinois is pronounced as ih-luh-NOY. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-lih-noyz, at 12.2% confidence.

ih-luh-NOY (3 syllables)
Verified
55.1% confidence
IH2 L AH0 N OY1
IH-lih-noyz (3 syllables)
Verified
12.2% confidence
IH1 L IH0 N OY0 Z
ih-LEE-noy (3 syllables)
12.2% confidence
IH0 L IY1 N OY0
ih-luh-NOYZ (3 syllables)
Verified
12.2% confidence
IH2 L AH0 N OY1 Z
ih-lih-NOY (3 syllables)
8.2% confidence
IH2 L IH0 N OY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Illinois. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Illinois, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ee-LEE-uh-noh (4 syllables)
1 name 90 births
IY0 L IY1 AH0 N OW0

Names with this pronunciation:

eh-loy-EE-nuh (4 syllables)
1 name 72 births
EH0 L OY0 IY1 N AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like IH2 L AH0 N OY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.