girls:
2.3k births since 1914
#3580 (37th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1914
#5479 (29th percentile)
The name Ilse is the #5,479 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,332 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 29.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,580 (37.4% percentile) for all time with 2,332 births since 1914.
Ilse first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for girls in 1914). Birth data for Ilse is available in 93 out of the 110 years between 1914 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, Ilse reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #747) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 53 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ilse ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 30.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ilse".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ilse. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Ilse is pronounced as IHL-suh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihls, at 22.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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