Ilena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Ilene: in Deutschland seit den i98oer-Jahren vorkommender weibl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪlnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ilena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 355K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 175K
- ITItaly≈1 in 187K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
615 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Ilene: in Deutschland seit den i98oer-Jahren vorkommender weibl. Vom., bei dem es sich wohl um eine vereinfachte
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 615 | 1 in 541K | 615 | Ilena | 84 |
| BR Brazil | 596 | 1 in 355K | 698 | Ilena | 34 |
| IT Italy | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 187K | 4 | Ilena | 32 |
| FR France | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 223K | 595 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 99 | 1 in 175K | 99 | Ilena | 2 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Ilena | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 23 | 1 in 222K | 23 | Ilena | 11 |
615 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ilena Mazzei Lalattab. 1901author (20th century)
- Ilena Gwisdallab. 1984DEGerman actress
- Ylena In-Albonb. 1999CHnot in their usual nameSwiss tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 698 | #5,909 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 684 | #11,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 615 | #17,761 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 596 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2021 | 595 | #2,868 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 593 | #11,841 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 574 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 99 | #5,546 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 51 | #11,729 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 23 | #5,308 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ilena?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪlnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ilena have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 615 people named Ilena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilena.
- Where is Ilena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ilena is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ilena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 615 people named Ilena in 2020, about 1 in 541 thousand residents.
- What does the name Ilena mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Ilene: in Deutschland seit den i98oer-Jahren vorkommender weibl.
- Is Ilena a male or female name?
- Ilena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What do you want to know about Ilena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilenaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ilena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.