Ilse

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: German

Meaning

Ilse is a Germanic feminine given name. It is technically a German diminutive of Elisabeth, functioning as a given name in its own right chiefly in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa and all of the Scandinavian countries including Finland.

From Wikipedia

Ilse first appears in the data in 1953 and has been recorded in 62 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2000 with 611 babies (rank #20 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Ilse

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Ilse yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

16,571
Total babies (all years)
62
Years in the data
611
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
195323#404
195424#399
195521#435
195633#340
195749#279
195835#343
195949#286
196067#229
196192#189
196279#218
1963124#151
1964139#136
1965138#136
1966137#136
1967208#95
1968184#112
1969244#93
1970254#86
1971288#69
1972266#74
1973256#68
1974306#56
1975306#55
1976288#55
1977360#48
1978290#58
1979305#54
1980342#47
1981298#59
1982274#58
1983304#46
1984365#36
1985420#23
1986361#40
1987348#42
1988355#41
1989317#52
1990396#36
1991362#41
1992314#44
1993361#38
1994322#48
1995282#56
1996291#54
1997309#49
1998342#45
1999585#20
2000611#20
2001575#24
2002508#25
2003438#34
2004442#31
2005324#44
2006294#50
2007304#42
2008299#47
2009298#44
2010257#56
2011189#81
2012189#78
2013166#87
2014164#85