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Ilma

#7,629 in 2025Girls' name

Air

Ilma has been given to 424 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #7,629 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ilma, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilma: meaning, origin, and history

Air

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ilma means

Ilma means “air”, associated with ilma.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilma is used in Finnish and Hungarian.

Ilma is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ilmatar and Vilma.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Ilma is pronounced /ˈilmɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 424 girls were recorded with the name Ilma between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1917; its best national rank was #978 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,105 in 2020 to #7,629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,217 in 2015 to #7,629 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 Ilma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,629
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilma 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilma was born before 1923 — so the typical Ilma is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
161
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1910s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Ilma 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
+6,506
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,476
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,588
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.3%
Peak was 1917 (15)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#978
1885

Spellings of Ilma

Ilma is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 26.6% against Ilma'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.

Where Ilma is used

Across 1910–2025, Ilma was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Ilma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ilma around the world

Where Ilma 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
    2003–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #4,751
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1947–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Ilma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,476
Best rank ever
#978
1885
Peak year
1917
15 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
424
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Ilma

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

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Sibling names for Ilma

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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