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Illa

Illa is a girl's name that peaked in 1926, when it was the 980th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 580 Illas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Illa

By the numbers

Total US births
1,800
Estimated living today
580
Median age today
72
Peak year
1926
Best rank
980th
Rank in 2025
9,457th
First recorded
1898

How old the living Illas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,800 babies given the name since 1898, about 580 are alive — 32 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Illa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Illa is most concentrated in Tennessee (11.7×), Texas (3.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1926

The most popular girls’ names the year Illa peaked:

All the names of 1926

Illa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Illa 15 7,322nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Illa against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.