Ilene

Where Ilene comes from

The dictionaries list Ilene as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,332 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Ilene Woods born
    American actress and singer
  3. 1938
    Peak, #347
    343 babies named Ilene — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1949
    Ilene Graff born
    American actress
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #830.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Ilene Woods · American actress and singer, 1929–2010
  • Ilene Graff · American actress, born 1949
  • Ilene Chaiken · American television director, producer and writer, born 1957
  • Ilene Hamann · South African actress, born 1984
  • Ilene Kristen · American actress, born 1952

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.