Ilhaam
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- il-HAHM
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Ilhaam is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “inspiration”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Ilhaam mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ilham
“inspiration”
In Islamic thought ilham is inspiration from God, distinguished from wahy, the revelation given to prophets.
Meaning borrowed from Ilham. More on Wiktionary.
Is Ilhaam a girl's or a boy's name?
Ilhaam is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ilhaam in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 86% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Ilhaam, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 6 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ilhaam in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were given Ilhaam or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,459, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Ilham 14
- Ilhaam 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Ilhaam in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
Names like Ilhaam
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hiba, Hafsa, Ayah, Rahma, Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Huda, Izzah, Safiya
Other spellings of Ilhaam
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Ilhaam: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ilhaam, updated 20 October 2026.