Ilana is a female first name.
Ilana is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,966 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,965 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ilana.
While Ilana isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1987 the name Ilana reached its highest popularity with #1,106 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Ilana. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Ilana.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ilana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 85 babies were born with the name Ilana. This puts the name in rank 1,979 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,743,905 newborns was named Ilana that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Ilana has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Ilana are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Ilana is registered in 19 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut or Florida. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Ilana live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 8,755 would turn around if you called the name Ilana across New York.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Ilana is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.7% of all girls’ names begin with an I, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names that begin with an I, which are quite popular
If your name is Ilana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ilana, you can simply say:
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ilana
Ilana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
L
A
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
L
A
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ilana sounds like this:
