Ileen
Ileen is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Ileen
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ileen 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 Ileen
Ileen first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1895, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1924: 51 births, good for #1,096 nationwide. About 20% of every Ileen on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Ileen last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Ileen
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Names that sound like Ileen
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About the name Ileen
Ileen is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1895 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Ileen's peak popularity came in 1924 when it ranked #1,096. Use the chart and map above to compare Ileen'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.