Ilana
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name, variant of Alana or Helena
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌɪˈɫɑnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ilana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7Kas Alana(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 6.1Kas Alana
- PYParaguay≈1 in 6.4Kas Alana
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ilana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
121,124 named Alana, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Alana in BR Brazil, US United States, PY Paraguay and 2 more.
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)
A female given name, variant of Alana or Helena
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Ilana is read(measured from records)
Ilana is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
A female given name, variant of Alana or Helena
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilana in Portuguese.
- French14%
Du hébreu; signifie « arbre ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Hebrew5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilana in Hebrew.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #576 | 121,124as Alana | 1 in 1.7K | 121K | Alana | 161 |
| US United States | — | 54,144as Alana | 1 in 6.1K | 54K | Alana | 274 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 3 | Alana | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 12 | Alana | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ilana | 12 |
| PY Paraguay | #666 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Alana | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 753 | 1 in 23K | 753 | Ilana | 16 |
| GY Guyana | — | 523as Alana | 1 in 1.4K | 523 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 269 | 1 in 7K | 270 | Ilana | 5 |
121,124 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ilana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Modern Jewish name, meaning ‘tree’ in Hebrew. Masculine form: Ilan .
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Invincibleb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Ilana Rovinab. 1934ILIsraeli singer
- Ilana Rovnerb. 1938USAmerican judge
- Ilana Salama Ortarb. 1949EGartist (born 1949)
- Ilana Klossb. 1956ZASouth African tennis player
- Ilan Stavansb. 1961MXnot in their usual nameMexican-American author, publisher, TV personality, and teacher (born 1961)
- Ilana Levineb. 1963USAmerican actress (1963-)
- Ilana Glazerb. 1987USAmerican comedian
- Ilana BeckerUSAmerican actress
- Ilana WittenUSAmerican neuropsychologist
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 67 sources across 37 countries.
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 Ilana?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌɪˈɫɑnə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ilana mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name, variant of Alana or Helena Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ilana a male or female name?
- Ilana 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 are other forms of the name Ilana?
- In the etymology graph, Ilanit is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ilana have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Alana, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ilana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ilana is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 7.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ilana?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 753 people named Ilana, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Ilana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ilana is the 576th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilanaThe 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, “Ilana” — the 576th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.