Ilie

given name · Romanian · Latin script

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

Ilie is a given name, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Romanian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Elijah (biblical character).

rarermore common
  • MDMoldova1 in 357◐
  • RORomania1 in 3.5K
  • ITItaly1 in 37K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
117 ●

26K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 357 ◐

Moldova

Meaning & origin●

Elijah (biblical character)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ilie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MD Moldova#849,421△403 rec.1 in 3579.4KIlie41
RO Romania#1558,9519.2K rec.——Ilie112
IT Italy—1,3532.7K rec.—1Ilie55
ES Spain—1,1012.7K rec.1 in 45K2.1KIlie61
GB United Kingdom—8741.3K rec.—listedIlie68
DE Germany—7561.4K rec.—1Ilie73
US United States—4076.4K rec.1 in 817K407Ilie117
PL Poland—296△12 rec.1 in 129K296—1
BE Belgium—165265 rec.—333Ilie14
CA Canada—161322 rec.——Ilie38
AT Austria—149180 rec.—8Ilie30
SE Sweden—130△35 rec.1 in 78K130—13

Roughly 9.4K people in Moldova bear this name (about 1 in 357). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Romanian24K54%
  • Spanish6.4K15%
  • English3.5K8%
  • French3K7%
  • Polish1.2K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Romanian23,86554%
Spanish6,44715%
English3,5328%
French2,9687%
Polish1,1993%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • French given name8.4K records spelled Ilie7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Romania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ilié, Iliè, Ilië, Ílie

  • Polish given name1.4K records spelled Ilie2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Romania, United Kingdom

    Also written Ilië

  • Russian given name404 records spelled Ilie10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Romania

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Илие, Іліє, Іліе

  • Italian given name366 records spelled Ilie2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Romania, United States, Spain

    Also written Ilié

  • a separate given name325 records spelled Ilie2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania

    Also written Ilié

40 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●

Ilie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Romanian form of Elias

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  • Romanian form of Elias (see ELLIS ). Feminine form: Ilinca .

    as a word

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.

Over time●

0204060802000200520102015202069 · 2018

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Ilie in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199922
200021
200122
200222
200323
200424
200524
200625
200732
200837
200938
201041
201141
201242
201346
201446
201551
201654
201765
201869
201969
202067

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Ilie Verdeț, b. 1925Ilie Ceaușescu, b. 1926Ciprian Foias, b. 1933Ilie Năstase, b. 1946Patriarch Daniel of Romania, b. 1951Ilie Balaci, b. 1956Ilie Bărbulescu, b. 1957Ilie Dumitrescu, b. 1969Ilie Bolojan, b. 1969Dan Barna, b. 1975

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●

Attested in 50 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Ilie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—9.4K#109
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.1K#2,336
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.1K#2,335
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#1,175
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,689
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020407#22,112
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—333#4,994
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020331#64,820
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026296#997
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—259#1,036
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010254#75,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000170#98,770

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 126 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ilie?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Ilie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Ilie have the most bearers?
We estimate about 9.4 thousand people bear Ilie in Moldova, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ilie.
Where is Ilie most common?
Ilie is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 357 people carrying it.
How common is Ilie compared with other names?
In Moldova, Ilie is the 84th most common given name of 2,579 given names recorded there.
Is Ilie a male or female name?
Ilie 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 does the name Ilie mean?
Recorded meaning: Elijah (biblical character)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Ilie” — the 84th most common given name in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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