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Ilan

#1,445 in 2025Boys' name

Tree, oak tree

Ilan has been given to 3,290 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #1,445 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Ilan, 2025

1 in 26,700

Ilan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilan: meaning, origin, and history

Tree, oak tree

Hebrew

What Ilan means

Ilan means “tree, oak tree”, associated with Ilán.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilan is used in English and Lun Bawang. Its origins include Hebrew.

Ilan comes through Hebrew אִילָן.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,231 boys were recorded with the name Ilan between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 153 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,132 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,350 in 2020 to #1,445 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,592 in 2015 to #1,445 in 2025.

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Ilan between 2007 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2014; its best national rank was #10,447 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ilan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,700
124 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,445
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilan was born before 2011 — so the typical Ilan is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,231
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (1,002).

Is Ilan 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
+3
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−95
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+147
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.0%
Peak was 2023 (153)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,132
2003

Spellings of Ilan

Ilan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 20.4% against Ilan's 0.07%.

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 Ilan is used

Across 2016–2025, Ilan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 11,272 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,250
  2. 2California1 in 8,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 9,091
  4. 4Texas1 in 11,111
  5. 5Illinois1 in 12,500
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 14,286
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 14,286
  8. 8Colorado1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Ilan around the world

Where Ilan 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #307
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ilan

People whose public names include Ilan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ilan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ilan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Elan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ilan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,445
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 95
Best rank ever
#1,132
2003
Peak year
2023
153 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,231
Count in 2025
124

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,447
2014
Peak year
2014
10 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ilan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ElanOlanArlanTylanTalanIlaiKelanDilanAslanIlayDyllanMylanKeelanKalanAzlanDaylanDeklanCaelanRolanJaylanCalanKylanOrlanLelan

Names with a curve like Ilan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ilan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YakovDovidNoamAryehEliyahuAkivaNikolaAmmarYasinShalomFarisTzvi

Sibling names for Ilan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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