Ily
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 40 babies a year in the US.
Babies a year
40
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Ily by the numbers
Ily was given to 40 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 72 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Ily
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 Ily. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.