Ilaf
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ee-LAAF
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- Style
- New arrival
Ilaf is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “familiarity, accustomed security”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Ilaf mean?
Arabic
“familiarity, accustomed security”
From the opening of Surah Quraysh in the Qur'an, which speaks of the ilaf, the customary security, of the Quraysh tribe.
Is Ilaf a girl's or a boy's name?
Ilaf is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ilaf in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Ilaf, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Ilaf or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
- Eilaf 6
- Ilaf 6
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Names like Ilaf
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Rahaf, Safa, Sadaf, Zainab, Ilham, Safaa, Izzah, Zaha, Rahma, Hibah, Farah, Hiba
Other spellings of Ilaf
Eilaf
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ilaf: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ilaf, updated 20 October 2026.