Ilia

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ilia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name. In English, recorded as plural of ilium.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 186as Илья(inferred from the name graph)
  • GEGeorgia1 in 204as ილია
  • SESweden1 in 282as Elias

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ilia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈760,000 named Илья, est.

#114 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
455 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 186 (inferred from the name graph)

Russia, est., as Илья

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ИльяCyrillic(measured from records)
EliasLatin(measured from records)
איליהHebrew(measured from records)
ΗλιαςGreek(measured from records)
ইলিয়াসBengali(measured from records)
ილიაGeorgian(measured from records)
อิลยัสThai(measured from records)
ኢሊያስEthiopic(measured from records)
ԵղիաArmenian(measured from records)

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elias in BR Brazil, US United States, FI Finland and 1 more, Илья in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China and Ilyas in TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ilia is read(measured from records)

Ilia is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English18%

    plural of ilium

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Russian18%

    var of Il'ia.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • Georgian15%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilia in Georgian.

  • Bulgarian15%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilia in Bulgarian.

  • Spanish14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilia in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ilia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ilia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#50≈760,000 est.≈1 in 186#26Илья252
BR Brazil#99190,432as Elias1 in 1.1K191KElias220
US United States#67288,033as Elias1 in 3.8K88KElias455
CN China—≈69,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Илья16
TR Türkiye#141≈66,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Ilyas110
SE Sweden#38636,200as Elias1 in 28236KElias84
BY Belarus#40≈33,000 est.≈1 in 2833Илья72
FI Finland—29,626as Elias1 in 18837KElias42
GE Georgia#7619,622as ილია1 in 20420KIlia72

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ilia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Mexico, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ília, Iliá, Ilía, Ilià, ́ília

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, United States, Romania, Russia

    Also written Ìļía

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Ili̐a, Ìlia, Iliâ, Il'Ia, Iliá

  • Swedish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Ilía, Iliã

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States

    Also written Ília

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ilia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, A transliteration of the Russian male given name Илья́ (Ilʹjá), equivalent to Ilya

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of īle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In min, downstream area

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, Their, theirs

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800185019001950Ilya Ulyanov, b. 1831Ilia Chavchavadze, b. 1837Ilia Repin, b. 1844Élie Metchnikoff, b. 1845Ilya Ehrenburg, b. 1891Ilya Frank, b. 1908Ilya Prigogine, b. 1917Ilia, b. 1933Ilya Oleynikov, b. 1947Elya Baskin, b. 1950
  • Ilya Ulyanovb. 1831RUnot in their usual nameRussian teacher, father of Vladimir Lenin (1831-1886)
  • Ilia Chavchavadzeb. 1837GEGeorgian public figure and writer; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church (1837-1907)
  • Ilia Repinb. 1844UARussian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)
  • Élie Metchnikoffb. 1845FRnot in their usual nameRussian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
  • Ilya Ehrenburgb. 1891UAnot in their usual nameSoviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
  • Ilya Frankb. 1908RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist
  • Ilya Prigogineb. 1917BEnot in their usual nameRussian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
  • Iliab. 1933GEbishop
  • Ilya Oleynikovb. 1947RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian comic actor and television personality (1947-2012)
  • Elya Baskinb. 1950USnot in their usual nameRussian actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 69 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Ilia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#6,581
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#6,581
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—560#1,018
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—276#4,143
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—263#21,405
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022254—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—230#21,447
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020159—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—126—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202556—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—50#5,421
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202534—

Reference works 5

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ilia a male or female name?
Ilia is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Ilia?
In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Elia are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ilia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 764 thousand people named Илья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
What does the name Ilia mean?
In English, plural of ilium
How common is the name Ilia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 190,432 people named Elias in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Ilia compared with other names?
In Russia, Ilia is the 50th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ilia” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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