How Many People Are Named Ilene?
people named Ilene are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 34,904 people in the US has this name
Based on 17,840 babies named Ilene in Social Security records from 1891 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
453 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of EILEEN, probably inspired by the spelling of Irene.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Ilene in English. Counting Ilene and these spellings together, about 142,173 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Ilene in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ilene alive today is about 61 years old, and 66% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 51 and 76 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ilene first appears in the records in 1891 and was given most often in 1950, to 453 babies. In 2025, 19 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1891 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Ilene has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #347, in 1938. In 2025 it ranked #6,201.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #6,201 |
| Best rank | #347 (1938) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #494 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ilene alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ilene were born in New York than in any other state: about 2,048 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ilene was given 3.8 times as often in Utah, 2.8 times in Michigan and 2.5 times in Idaho.
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