Ilo

Where Ilo comes from

Ilo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    Ilo Wallace born
    Second Lady of the United States
  2. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,136 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1896
    Ilo Mosashvili born
    Georgian and Soviet screenwriter and writer
  4. 1899
    Peak, #835
    15 babies named Ilo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,438.
  6. 2021
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ilo Wallace · Second Lady of the United States, 1888–1981
  • Ilo Mosashvili · Georgian and Soviet screenwriter and writer, 1896–1957
  • Ilo Mitkë Qafëzezi · Albanian writer, 1889–1964

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.