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First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From ilgas (“yearning, longing for”).
Ilga f
- a female given name
- Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Ilga was the only given name of 4857 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.