Iliyan
given name · Bulgarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iliyan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is the 99th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and French, written in the Latin script.
- BGBulgaria1 in 2.3K◐
- RURussia1 in 781K
- FRFrance1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.2K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 101 ●
- 1 in 12K ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
6.6K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ilian in US United States, PL Poland, ES Spain and 4 more, Илиан in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more and Іліан in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #99 | 18,832 | 3.6K rec. | — | — | Iliyan | 101 |
| FR France | — | 5,730△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 12K | 5.7K | — | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | 1,325 | 760 rec. | — | #2,135 | Илиан | 75 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 472 | 236 rec. | — | listed | Iliyan | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 328 | 202 rec. | 1 in 152K | 328 | Ilian | 28 |
| US United States | — | 299 | 791 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 299 | Ilian | 76 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 268 | 273 rec. | — | — | Іліан | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 256 | 237 rec. | — | listed | Iliyan | 51 |
| BR Brazil | — | 210△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1M | 210 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 141△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 72K | 141 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 133△ | 40 rec. | 1 in 130K | 133 | Iliyan | 10 |
| PL Poland | — | 117△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 327K | 117 | Ilian | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bulgarian8.4K76%
- French4574%
- Spanish4034%
- English3463%
- German3213%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | 8,448 | 76% |
| French | 457 | 4% |
| Spanish | 403 | 4% |
| English | 346 | 3% |
| German | 321 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 14 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 13 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 7 years between 2013–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Iliyan Nedkovb. 1958BGBulgarian Olympic judoka
- Ilian Mihovb. 1966BGnot in their usual nameeconomist
- Iliyan Kiryakovb. 1967BGBulgarian footballer
- Ilijan Simeonovb. 1974BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian association football player
- Ilianb. 1982BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Iliyan Mitsanskib. 1985BGBulgarian footballer
- Iliyan Ilievb. 1988BGBulgarian footballer
- Ilijan Krasimirov Arsovb. 1990BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian association football player (1990-)
- Iliyan Stefanovb. 1998BGBulgarian footballer
- Iliyan Stoynovb. 2001BGbadminton player
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 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 168 | #10,347 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 166 | #4,854 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 46 | #8,672 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #13,874 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 24 | #5,672 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #5,558 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,061 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #4,321 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 13 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 50 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Iliyan?
- We estimate roughly 7.2 thousand people bear Iliyan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Iliyan have the most bearers?
- Iliyan is most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is most often spelled iliyan.
- How common is Iliyan compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Iliyan is the 99th most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.
- Is Iliyan a male or female name?
- Iliyan 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iliyanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Iliyan” — the 99th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.