Ilan
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #13,453 · #1,443 for boys in 2025, 124 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 134 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,231since 1965
Ilan over time
Rank among boys' names. Ilan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,443 | 124 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,448 | 125 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,258 | 153 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,652 | 104 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,378 | 133 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,347 | 132 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,420 | 123 |
| 2018 | — | #1,547 | 109 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #1,467 | 115 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,548 | 107 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,588 | 101 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #1,751 | 86 |
| 2013 | — | #1,675 | 89 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,626 | 95 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,635 | 93 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,768 | 84 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,604 | 99 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #1,582 | 100 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #1,387 | 118 |
| 2006 | — | #1,877 | 72 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,922 | 66 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,763 | 71 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,131 | 134 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,817 | 33 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,618 | 36 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,298 | 42 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,263 | 40 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,552 | 33 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,546 | 31 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,254 | 36 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,685 | 27 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,259 | 35 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,577 | 28 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,338 | 19 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,753 | 24 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,780 | 23 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,615 | 24 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,169 | 27 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,601 | 20 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,710 | 18 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,518 | 19 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,729 | 17 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,568 | 17 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,245 | 20 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,637 | 15 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,606 | 14 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ilan! It came in at #3,930, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ilan is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#538 · 1 in 3,565
- Colorado#645 · 1 in 3,689
- New York#724 · 1 in 4,691
- California#838 · 1 in 6,530
- Florida#1,020 · 1 in 7,730
Best ever in a state: #507 in Oregon, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #538 | 8 | 1 in 3,565 |
| Colorado | #645 | 7 | 1 in 3,689 |
| New York | #724 | 19 | 1 in 4,691 |
| California | #838 | 29 | 1 in 6,530 |
| Florida | #1,020 | 12 | 1 in 7,730 |
| Texas | #1,155 | 17 | 1 in 10,066 |
| Illinois | #1,296 | 5 | 1 in 10,781 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ilan
- 5 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,443)
- 96 spots since 2020 (#1,347 → #1,443)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#1,588 → #1,443)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2003 at #1,131 (134 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,180 boys born in 2023 were named Ilan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,775 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,131 in 2003, was only 1 in 14,741 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.0% of all boys named Ilan (1,002) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 34 | #2,985 (1967) | #3,458 |
| 1970s | 137 | #2,245 (1976) | #2,868 |
| 1980s | 220 | #1,955 (1983) | #2,436 |
| 1990s | 296 | #2,254 (1996) | #2,601 |
| 2000s | 771 | #1,131 (2003) | #1,900 |
| 2010s | 1,002 | #1,420 (2019) | #1,603 |
| 2020s | 771 | #1,258 (2023) | #1,421 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ilan in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,154 of them was named Ilan, which outranked 90.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,372Lucius134
- #1,372Ramsey134
- #1,372Ruger134
- #1,378Ilan133
- #1,378Braylin133
- #1,378Coby133
- #1,378Cristobal133
- #1,383Alessio132
- #1,383Arman132
- #1,383Darien132
Tied with 4 names at #1,378; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.