Ilma
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in England and Wales.
Ilma by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Ilma. In the US, 8 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 15 babies in 1917, making it a 1910s name.
What we can tell you about Ilma
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ilma. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ilaearth or the world230 in the US (2017)
- Irmawhole or universal70 in the US (2017)
- Ilyamy God is Yahweh; Russian form of Elijah13 in England and Wales (2025)
- Iliafrom troy or trojan; a form of Ilias35 in the US (2017)
- Ilsanoble maiden; variant of Ilse6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ildabattle, strife; a form of Hilda5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Ilma
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