girls:
898 births since 1915
#4818 (16th percentile)
overall:
898 births since 1915
#6841 (12th percentile)
The name Ily is the #6,841 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 898 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 11.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,818 (15.7% percentile) for all time with 898 births since 1915.
Ily first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Ily is available in 24 out of the 109 years between 1915 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, Ily reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #865) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 40 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ily ranks #899 for girls (5.1% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 75.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ily".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ily. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.9% confident that Ily is pronounced as IH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-lee, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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