Ilhan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Ilhan boys named Ilhan

Girls and boys called Ilhan

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 422 girls and 167 boys in all, and in 2022 the split was 15 to 14.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 10 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

589

Estimated living today

580

Median age today

9

Peak year

2019

Best rank

4,260th

Rank in 2025

9,457th

First recorded

1997

Girls / boys

422 / 167

How old the living Ilhans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 589 babies given the name since 1997, about 580 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Ilhans

• Ilhan Omar (born 1982)American politician
• İlhan Mansız (born 1975)Turkish association football player
• İlhan Berk (1918–2008)Turkish poet and writer
• İlhan Selçuk (1925–2010)Turkish journalist
• İlhan Parlak (born 1987)Turkish association football player
• İlhan Usmanbaş (1921–2025)Turkish composer
• Ilhan Kyuchuk (born 1985)Bulgarian politician

People named Ilhan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Ilhan is most common

• MN80
• OH6

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ilhan is most concentrated in Minnesota (50.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2019

The most popular girls’ names the year Ilhan peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Ava
• Sophia
• Isabella
• Charlotte

All the names of 2019

Ilhan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ilhan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Ilhan is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 30 of them.

Ilhan: rank by region

In 2023, Ilhan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ilhan appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (249th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Ilhan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.