# Ilene (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ilene/  
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 | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,840 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 17,840 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 | 39 | 3,869 |
| 2012 | 45 | 3,552 |
| 2013 | 33 | 4,367 |
| 2014 | 40 | 3,803 |
| 2015 | 34 | 4,251 |
| 2016 | 26 | 5,192 |
| 2017 | 20 | 6,138 |
| 2018 | 21 | 5,864 |
| 2019 | 16 | 7,148 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,352 |
| 2021 | 14 | 7,784 |
| 2022 | 17 | 6,829 |
| 2023 | 24 | 5,303 |
| 2024 | 22 | 5,687 |
| 2025 | 19 | 6,202 |

## People named Ilene

- Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (1926-2010)
- Ilene Graff, American actress (1949-)
- Ilene Chaiken, American television director, producer and writer (born 1957)

## 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.