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Ilir

#11,177 in 2025Boys' name

Free, free man

Ilir has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #11,177 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Ilir, 2025

1 in 553,000

Ilir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilir: meaning, origin, and history

Free, free man

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ilir means

Ilir means “free, free man”, associated with lirë.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilir is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 161 boys were recorded with the name Ilir between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1991; its best national rank was #4,706 in 1987.

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 Ilir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,177
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilir 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilir was born before 1994 — so the typical Ilir is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
161
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Ilir 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
−890
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 1991 (10)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,706
1987

Spellings of Ilir

Ilir is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 42.2% against Ilir's 0.04%.

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 Ilir is used

Across 1910–2025, Ilir was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 333,096 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Ilir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ilir around the world

Where Ilir 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
    2002–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2000–2025
    #3,100
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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

Ilir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,177
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,706
1987
Peak year
1991
10 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
161
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Ilir

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

IliaIlijaIliyaIlianIliasIlijahIliamIliyanIlieIlioLirIliyasIliyaasIlirian

Sibling names for Ilir

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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