Ilse is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ilse is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Ilse. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ilse is #3,729 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ilse.
While Ilse 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 1994 the name Ilse reached its highest popularity with #1,403 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 Ilse. 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 Ilse.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ilse was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 56 babies were born with the name Ilse. This puts the name in rank 2,630 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 2,646,998 newborns was named Ilse that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Ilse has been and remains marvelously unusual!
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Ilse in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 1,180 women and girls named Ilse, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 1,180 women and girls named Ilse live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Ilse. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Ilse lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Ilse and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Ilse relative to its female population is Texas. And even there, only one in 22,015 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ilse.
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 four letters, the name Ilse is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Ilse 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 Ilse, you can simply say:
Igloo
Lion
Sun
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ilse
Ilse
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
L
S
E
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
S
E
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. Ilse sounds like this:
