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Ilva

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Ilva has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1921, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Ilva, 1948

1 in 575,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilva: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ilva means

Ilva is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilva is used in Latvian.

Ilva is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 girls were recorded with the name Ilva between 1915 and 1948. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,848 in 1921.

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 Ilva?

Ilva had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1948, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1948
1 in 575,000
6 of 3,452,053 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1948
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
398,798 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilva 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 1948 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 398,798 children born in 1948 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilvas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilva was born before 1921 — so the typical Ilva is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Ilva 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 1921 (12)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,848
1921

Spellings of Ilva

Ilva is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 12.7% against Ilva'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.

Ilva around the world

Where Ilva 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.

  • France
    1924–1934
    #1,156
    in 1934

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ilva 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
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Best rank ever
#2,848
1921
Peak year
1921
12 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1948
All-time count
57
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ilva

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

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Sibling names for Ilva

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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