Illia
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Illia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá).
- FIFinland1 in 188◐
- GEGeorgia1 in 204
- RURussia1 in 209
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈461K ●
- #165 ●
- 9 ●
- Sources
- 399 ●
- 1 in 188 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
5.8M records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elias in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 13 more, Илья in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and 1 more, Ilyas in TR Türkiye and Ілля 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●
- UkrainianІлля́Illjá●
- Ancient GreekἨλίαςĒlías◐via Ілля́
- HebrewאליהוEliyahu“My God is Yahweh”◐via Ілля́
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá).
Sources 1
Attested across 24 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #50 | 4,942,974 | 1.9M rec. | — | #26 | Илья | 220 |
| AR Argentina | #189 | 843,955 | 426K rec. | — | 10K | Elias | 123 |
| TR Türkiye | #145 | 593,153 | 508K rec. | — | — | Ilyas | 59 |
| UA Ukraine | #81 | 565,656 | 557K rec. | — | listed | Ілля | 75 |
| MX Mexico | #218 | 226,881 | 255K rec. | — | 658 | Elias | 211 |
| IN India | — | 216,490 | 111K rec. | — | 3.3K | Iliyas | 104 |
| PE Peru | #153 | 208,437 | 214K rec. | — | #10 | Elias | 93 |
| BR Brazil | #149 | 190,432 | 279K rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 191K | Elias | 214 |
| VE Venezuela | #147 | 173,790 | 92K rec. | — | — | Elias | 94 |
| CL Chile | #186 | 87,773 | 7.6K rec. | — | 284 | Elias | 101 |
| US United States | #664 | 87,649 | 620K rec. | 1 in 3.8K | 88K | Elias | 399 |
| AT Austria | #46 | 61,752 | 4.3K rec. | — | 17K | Elias | 100 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian124K63%
- Polish62K31%
- Norwegian Bokmål2.2K1%
- English1.5K1%
- Spanish1.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 124,400 | 63% |
| Polish | 62,331 | 31% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 2,230 | 1% |
| English | 1,514 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,482 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Illia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ілля́ (Illjá)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 30 |
| 2024 | 34 |
| 2025 | 37 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 8 years between 2018–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ilya Ostapenkob. 1904UAnot in their usual nameSoviet military officer
- Illya Yemetzb. 1956UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian doctor, cardiac surgeon, doctor of medical sciences, professor, honored doctor of Ukraine, member of the European Association of Congenital Heart Surgery.
- Illya Chychkanb. 1967UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian artist
- Illia Kyvab. 1977UAUkrainian politician (1977–2023)
- Ilya Kaminskyb. 1977UAnot in their usual namepoet, critic, translator and professor
- Illya Marchenkob. 1987UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian tennis player
- Illia Nyzhnykb. 1996UAUkrainian chess grandmaster
- Illia Yaremenkob. 1997UAUkrainian Paralympic swimmer
- Illya Zabarnyib. 2002UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian association football player
- Illia Kovtunb. 2003UAUkrainian gymnast
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 41 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 94 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Illia?
- We estimate roughly 461 thousand people bear Illia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Illia have the most bearers?
- Illia is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled илья.
- Where is Illia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Illia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 188 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Illia compared with other names?
- In Russia, Illia is the 50th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Illia a male or female name?
- Illia 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 Illia mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá).
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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, “Illia” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.