About the name Ilene
Ilene belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Ilene first appears in Social Security records in 1891. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #347 in 1938, and in 2024 22 babies received the name — 17,822 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.