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Ilga

Girls' name

Yearning, longing for

Ilga has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1953. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ilga, 1953

1 in 642,000

Ilga over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilga: meaning, origin, and history

Yearning, longing for

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ilga means

Ilga means “yearning, longing for”, associated with ilgas.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilga is used in Latvian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Ilga between 1953 and 1953. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1953; its best national rank was #5,293 in 1953.

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 Ilga?

Ilga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1953, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1953
1 in 642,000
6 of 3,852,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 313,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1953
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
445,055 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilga sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1953 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 445,055 children born in 1953 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilgas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilga was born before 1953 — so the typical Ilga is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Ilga 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (6)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,293
1953

Spellings of Ilga

Ilga is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 18.8% against Ilga's <0.01%.

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.

Ilga around the world

Where Ilga 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.

  • South Australia
    1951–1951
    #423
    in 1951

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ilga by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,293
1953
Peak year
1953
6 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1953
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ilga

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

ElgaAlgaHelgaOlga

Sibling names for Ilga

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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