Ilah
#3,046 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ilah has been given to 1,788 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #3,046 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 70 recorded.
Babies named Ilah, 2025
1 in 61,400
Ilah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ilah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 61,400
- 54 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 29,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,046
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 42,555 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ilah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ilahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilah was born before 1934 — so the typical Ilah is around 91 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 19.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 749
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 19.6% of all recorded uses (351).
Is Ilah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −57
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −250
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,144
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.08×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 77.1%
- Peak was 2022 (70)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ilah
Ilah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 22.3% against Ilah's 0.16%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ilah is used
Across 1910–2025, Ilah was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 227,217 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ilah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ilah around the world
Where Ilah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2012–2020#5,493in 2020
- Canada2019–2021#3,354in 2021
- South Australia2007–2013#536in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ilah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ilah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ilah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.