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Ilan vs Ilaria

American parents have registered 3,290 Ilans since 1880, against 788 Ilarias. Ilan is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ilan against Ilaria, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ilan Ilaria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ilan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Ilan had 7 and Ilaria had 5.

Side by side

  Ilan Ilaria
Total US births 3,290788
Most in one year 15360
Babies in 2025 12460
Estimated living today 3,200780
Median age today 138
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 1,258th boys2,822nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,443rd2,822nd
First recorded 19651968
Girls / boys 59 / 3,231788 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ilans alive today are over 13; half the Ilarias are over 8. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ilan Ilaria
France 14,375270
Switzerland 783918
Belgium 648321
England and Wales 294484
Poland 2030
Scotland 427

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ilan and Ilaria.