Ilean
Ilean is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Ilean
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ilean is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Ilean
Ilean first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1904, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1926: 42 births, good for #1,181 nationwide. About 32% of every Ilean on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Ilean last appeared in the published SSA data in 2012, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 965 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ilean
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About the name Ilean
Ilean is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1904 and has accumulated 965 births in the dataset. Ilean's peak popularity came in 1926 when it ranked #1,181. Use the chart and map above to compare Ilean's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.