Ilka
Ilka is a feminine given name. Notable people with the given name include:Ilka Agricola, German mathematician Ilka Bessin, German comedian and actress Ilka Chase (1905–1978), American actress and novelist Ilka Gedő (1921–1985), Jewish Hungarian artist Ilka Groenewold, German TV presenter, singer and athlete Ilka Grüning (1876–1964), Jewish actress who fled Europe when the Nazis came to power in…
- Hungarian
- German
Meaning & Origin of Ilka
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ilka is a feminine given name. Notable people with the given name include:Ilka Agricola, German mathematician Ilka Bessin, German comedian and actress Ilka Chase (1905–1978), American actress and novelist Ilka Gedő (1921–1985), Jewish Hungarian artist Ilka Groenewold, German TV presenter, singer and athlete Ilka Grüning (1876–1964), Jewish actress who fled Europe when the Nazis came to power in…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hungarian
- German
The Story of Ilka
Ilka first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1955, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1970: 19 births, good for #3,311 nationwide. About 45% of every Ilka on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Ilka last appeared in the published SSA data in 1998, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 249 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ilka
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About the name Ilka
Ilka is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1955 and has accumulated 249 births in the dataset. Ilka's peak popularity came in 1970 when it ranked #3,311. Use the chart and map above to compare Ilka'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 .
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