Iline
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Iline has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1920, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Iline, 2004
1 in 764,000
Iline 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Iline?
Iline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 367,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Iline sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ilines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Iline was born before 1925 — so the typical Iline is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 48.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 22
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Iline 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (18)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Iline
Iline is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 36.5% against Iline'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.
Iline around the world
Where Iline 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.
- France2012–2025#1,039in 2025
- Canada2019–2019#2,202in 2019
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Iline by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Iline
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Iline
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.