How Many People Are Named Ileen?
people named Ileen are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 297,204 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,152 babies named Ileen in Social Security records from 1895 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
51 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of EILEEN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Ileen in English. Counting Ileen and these spellings together, about 142,173 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Ileen in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ileen alive today is about 47 years old, and 42% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 20 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ileen first appears in the records in 1895 and was given most often in 1924, to 51 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1895 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Ileen has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,069, in 1925.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,069 (1925) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,187 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ileen alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ileen were born in California than in any other state: about 254 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ileen was given about 5.3 times as often in California.
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