Ilhan

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ilhan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ilhan: Recorded since 1997, it reached #1,519 in 2002, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#1519highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#2701
1999	#3225
2001	#2226
2002	#2301
2003	#1843
2004	#2530
2005	#1934
2006	#2509
2007	#1854
2008	#3005
2009	#4564
2010	#2392
2011	#2275
2012	#3285
2013	#3536
2014	#4684
2015	#3615
2016	#4096
2017	#4763
2018	#3518
2019	#2458
2020	#3447
2021	#5581
2022	#3970
2023	#5687
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2024
Highest recorded position: #1519 among boys in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 2002–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ilhan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 177 births with the name.

Ilhan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ilhan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#1843 (2003)	#4192 (2024)	27 of 28	177 (1997–2024)	13 (2007)
England and Wales · Boys	#1519 (2002)	#1519 (2002)	#3688 (2024)	19 of 23	106 (2002–2024)	11 (2019)

Ilhan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ilhan in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	74	9 of 10	8
2010s	69	10 of 10	7
2020s	22	5 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ilhan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1519 in England and Wales in 2002.

Ilhan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,519, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ilhaan · #3262, 10y
Ilham · #1372, 28y
Ilia · #829, 18y
Iliana · #1119, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aneirin · #1519, 27y
Gurvir · #1519, 26y
Mace · #1519, 26y
Yusaf · #1519, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aneirin · #1519, 27y
Crispin · #1519, 20y
Gurvir · #1519, 26y
Mace · #1519, 26y

Ilhan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ilhan without appearing here.

Ilhan moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4564 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #5707.
Lynette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4564 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3285 and #5876.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3536 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #5666.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Ilhan

Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1771 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3009 and #906.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1461.
Henrik Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3009 and #3651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #2174.
Malin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3961.

Moved the opposite way to Ilhan

Dylan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ilhan went from #2701 to #4192 while Dylan went from #3848 to #1743.
Marilyn Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ilhan went from #2701 to #4192 while Marilyn went from #2701 to #1541.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ilhan went from #2226 to #4192 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Albie Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ilhan went from #1519 to #3688 while Albie went from #722 to #19.

Moved the same way as Ilhan

Kristin Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ilhan went from #3824 to #5687 and Kristin from #1176 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ilhan went from #3824 to #5687 and Therese from #3174 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ilhan went from #3824 to #5687 and Tracey from #1450 to #5687.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ilhan went from #2701 to #5687 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1519 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ilhan

Ilhan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ilhan across 2 official records

Ilhan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ilhan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Ilhan and the names beside it

Ilhan moved ahead of

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Ilhan at a glance

Ilhan across 2 official records

Ilhan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ilhan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Ilhan and the names beside it

Ilhan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ilhan

Moved the opposite way to Ilhan

Moved the same way as Ilhan