Ilo is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Recently, the name Ilo has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Ilo. That means that a girl named Ilo is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ilo.
Is the name Ilo a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1899 – at that time, it landed at position 784 with 15 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Ilo is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Ilo, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ilo was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Ilo, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 8 parents welcomed a new Ilo to earth that year. That makes Ilo ranking on position 9,733 among newborn girls in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Ilo who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
The first name Ilo is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 113 Americans in total bear this name. And these 113 women are located in only four states: Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Ilo and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Ilo in relation to it’s female population is Iowa. And yet even there, only one in 84,572 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ilo.
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 only three letters, the name Ilo is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Ilo 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 Ilo, you can simply say:
Igloo
Lion
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ilo
Ilo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
L
O
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
O
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. Ilo sounds like this:
