Ileana

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Romanian form of Elena

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ilɛana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ileana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 21st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 915(inferred from the name graph)
  • RORomania≈1 in 980
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈22,000 people, est.

Sources
301 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 915 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Romanian form of Elena.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ileana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ileana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#138≈22,000 est.≈1 in 980101KIleana101
US United States—10,6191 in 31K11KIleana301
NI Nicaragua#81≈6,800 est.≈1 in 915—Ileana21
IT Italy—≈6,100 est.≈1 in 10K5Ileana96
AR Argentina#728≈4,400 est.≈1 in 10K7Ileana84
CU Cuba#21≈4,400 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Ileana22
GT Guatemala#221≈3,500 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Ileana41
CR Costa Rica#1023,0821 in 1.7K3.1KIleana55

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ileana is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Croatia, Hungary

    Languages: Croatian, Hungarian, Arabic

    Also written Iljana, Илеана, Ιλεανα, Ιλεάνα, Iléana

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Iléana, Ileană

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Iléana

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Romania

    Also written Iléana, Ilëana

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Iléana

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Romania

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Илеана, Ілеана

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Romania, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ileană

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ileana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., rumänische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Splendente

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Romanian, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Romanian form of HELEN .

    as a word

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Ileana Leonidoff, b. 1893Princess Ileana of Romania, b. 1909Ileana Sonnabend, b. 1914Ileana Cotrubaș, b. 1939Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, b. 1946Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, b. 1952Ileana Citaristi, b. 1968Ileana D'Cruz, b. 1986Eneli, b. 1995Ileana Streinu, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Ileana,Hi Ileana, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 72 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Ileana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot2022101K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names2022101K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202011K#2,364
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—3.1K#255
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202550—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202022#2,364
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20227#2,691
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20235#1,684
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20122—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20141—
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ileana mean, and where does it come from?
Romanian form of Elena. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
How do you pronounce Ileana?
A machine transcription gives /ilɛana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Ileana a male or female name?
Ileana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Ileana?
In the etymology graph, Elena, Helen and Elaine are forms of the same name in other languages; Lenuța is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Ileana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Ileana in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ileana.
How common is the name Ileana?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,619 people named Ileana in 2020, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
How common is Ileana compared with other names?
In Romania, Ileana is the 138th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ileana” — the 138th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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