| The girl name Ilona [ 3 syll. i-lo-na, il-ona ] is pronounced IHLOWNah KEY. Ilona's language of origin is Old Greek, and it is used mainly in the Finnish, German, and Hungarian languages. Variants of Ilona include the pet forms Ilka (Hungarian), Ilke (Hungarian), and Ilonka (German and Hungarian). Ilona is a variation of the English Helen. Ilona is uncommon as a baby name for girls. At the modest height of its usage in 1946, 0.006% of baby girls were given the name Ilona. It ranked at #821 then. The baby name has since experienced a drop in frequency, and is used only on a very light scale now. Within the group of girl names directly linked to Ilona, the English Helen was the most widely used in 2007. Baby names that sound like Ilona include the Hebrew Ilana, the Romanian Ileana, the English and German Iliana, the English, Hungarian, and Latvian Ilma, and the English Elaine. KEY: English pronunciation for Ilona: IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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