What popularized the baby name Ilona in the 1940s?

The baby name Ilona, which began increasing in usage in the late 1930s, reached peaked popularity in the mid-1940s. Amid this rise, it saw a distinct uptick in 1940 specifically: What was drawing attention the name Ilona around that time? Hungarian-born singer and actress Ilona Massey. Two years after portraying a minor character in her […]