Ilona
Meaning
in Finland popularly associated with ilo, "joy" (a folk connection, not the name's original Greek/Hungarian root)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ilona has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
255 people · the #21,390 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 69
Among people named Ilona living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1940s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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