# Ileana (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ileana/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Iliana |
| US babies named this | 5,617 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,617 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 84, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 88 | 2,164 |
| 2012 | 81 | 2,323 |
| 2013 | 93 | 2,071 |
| 2014 | 88 | 2,159 |
| 2015 | 64 | 2,755 |
| 2016 | 96 | 2,060 |
| 2017 | 88 | 2,170 |
| 2018 | 102 | 1,944 |
| 2019 | 82 | 2,241 |
| 2020 | 83 | 2,180 |
| 2021 | 83 | 2,239 |
| 2022 | 97 | 2,012 |
| 2023 | 88 | 2,162 |
| 2024 | 76 | 2,397 |
| 2025 | 50 | 3,180 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |

## People named Ileana

- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, American politician (born 1952)
- Ileana Sonnabend, American art dealer (1914–2007)
- Ileana Beltrán, Cuban judoka

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.