Ilhan is from the Old Turkic Il-Khan ("ruler of the realm, ruler of the land") — the title of the Mongol Ilkhanate (c. 1256-1335). Ilhan Omar (born 1982) — American politician; in 2018, became one of the first two Muslim women, the first naturalized citizen from Africa, the first Somali American, and the first hijab-wearing member of the United States Congress (Minneapolis's 5th district). Came to the US in 1995 at age 13 as a refugee from Somalia, having spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. Member of "The Squad" — the progressive group of women of color elected to Congress in 2018. *Author of memoir This Is What America Looks Like (2020). The first woman of color to represent Minnesota at the state legislative or federal level. In 2019, she became the first member of Congress to wear a hijab on the House floor after the chamber lifted its 181-year-old hat ban*.
Subject of countless 2018-2020 American political profiles.
Ilhan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ilhan reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.