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Ilze

Girls' name

Short form of Elizabete

Ilze has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1951, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Ilze, 2010

1 in 739,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilze: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Elizabete

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ilze means

Ilze is a short form of Elizabete.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ilze is used in Latvian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ilze → Elizabete → Elisabete → אלישבע. The family’s meaning is “god, deity + to promise, swear”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements אֵל and נִשְׁבַּע.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilze is used in Latvian and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elizabete and Ilse.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Ilze is pronounced /ˈiw.zi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 68 girls were recorded with the name Ilze between 1951 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1951; its best national rank was #3,004 in 1951.

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 Ilze?

Ilze had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilze 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 2010 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 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilze. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilzes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilze was born before 1954 — so the typical Ilze is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
69.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
68
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 69.1% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Ilze 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 1951 (13)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,004
1951

Spellings of Ilze

Ilze is not the most common spelling — Lee is, with 29.2% against Ilze's 0.03%.

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.

Ilze around the world

Where Ilze 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.

  • South Australia
    1950–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ilze 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
#3,004
1951
Peak year
1951
13 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
68
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Ilze

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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