Given name
Ilze
Ilze is a feminine given name. It is used in Portuguese and Latvian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Ilze isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ilze through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 68
- 0 boys · 68 girls
- Most popular year
- 1951
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1951. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 376 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ilze’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Ilze has a diminutive in Ilzīte. In Latvian usage, Ilze shares a linguistic root with the German form Ilse. In Latvian usage, Ilze has a related form in ELIZABETE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 42
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Isabellaequivalent
- Elizabethequivalent
- Isabelleequivalent
- Isabelequivalent
- Izabellaequivalent
- Elisabethequivalent
- Lisaequivalent
- Bettyequivalent
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- Lizequivalent
- Lizaequivalent
- Betsyequivalent
- Tinaequivalent
- Izabelequivalent
- Izabelaequivalent
- Ilsecognate · German
- Lieslequivalent
- Lieselequivalent
- Ilsaequivalent
- Elspethequivalent
- Elisabetequivalent
- Betinaequivalent
- Bettinaequivalent
- Elizabetequivalent
- Elisabettaequivalent
- Liisaequivalent
- Lieseequivalent
- Tineequivalent
- Liseequivalent
- Elizabetaequivalent
- Elesbedequivalent
- Elżbietaequivalent
- Liisiequivalent
- Alžbětaequivalent
- Elizabetoequivalent
- Ísabellaequivalent
- Eskeequivalent
- Ilzaequivalent
- Elžbietaequivalent
- Erzsébetequivalent
- Élisabethequivalent
- Ealisaidequivalent
- Liesbethequivalent
People named Ilze
- Ilze JaunalksneLatvian journalist (born 1976)
- Ilze LiepaRussian ballet dancer and actressborn 1963
- Ilze JuhansoneLatvian diplomat and civil servant (born 1971)
- Ilze ViņķeleLatvian politicianborn 1971
- Ilze Bērziņachess playerborn 1984
- Ilze GraubiņaLatvian musician (1941–2001)
- Ilze IndriksoneLatvian politicianborn 1974
- Ilze HattinghSouth African tennis playerborn 1996
- Ilze Ķuzule-SkrastiņaLatvian actressborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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