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Ilham

#6,644 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Inspiration

Ilham has been given to 305 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #6,644 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 17 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Ilham, 2025

1 in 195,000

Ilham over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ilham over time

In 2025, Ilham went to 61% girls and 39% boys.

19952025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ilham: meaning, origin, and history

Inspiration

Arabic

What Ilham means

Ilham means “inspiration”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilham is used in English and Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Ilham comes through Arabic إِلْهَام.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 272 girls were recorded with the name Ilham between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,644 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,808 in 2020 to #6,644 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,726 in 2015 to #6,644 in 2025.

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Ilham between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,355 in 2025.

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 Ilham?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,644
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilham 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilhams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilham was born before 2014 — so the typical Ilham is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
272
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Choose a decade

2010s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Ilham 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
+1,494
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,164
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,082
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (17)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,644
2025

Spellings of Ilham

Ilham is not the most common spelling — Ila is, with 63.3% against Ilham's 0.69%.

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 Ilham is used

Across 1910–2025, Ilham was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,406,189 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Ilham has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ilham around the world

Where Ilham 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
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #1,170
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1986–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Ilham by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,644
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,164
Best rank ever
#6,644
2025
Peak year
2025
17 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
272
Count in 2025
17

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,355
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,355
2025
Peak year
2025
11 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Ilham

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

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Sibling names for Ilham

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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