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Ilias

#2,316 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Elias

Ilias has been given to 1,019 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,316 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Ilias, 2025

1 in 55,300

Ilias over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilias: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Elias

Arabic

What Ilias means

Ilias is a form of Elias.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ilias → Elias → Elijah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is my god”, recorded in English with the source elements Eliyahu.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilias is used in Dutch. Its origins include Arabic.

Ilias comes through Ancient Greek Ἠλίας and Hebrew אֵלִיָּהוּ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elias.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Ilias is pronounced /ˈi.liˌɑs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,019 boys were recorded with the name Ilias between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,196 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,996 in 2020 to #2,316 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,730 in 2015 to #2,316 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ilias?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,316
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilias sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iliass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilias was born before 2013 — so the typical Ilias is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,019
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (396).

Is Ilias rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−120
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+680
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,414
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.9%
Peak was 2024 (66)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,196
2024

Spellings of Ilias

Ilias is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 54.2% against Ilias's 0.15%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ilias is used

Across 1910–2025, Ilias was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 222,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ilias has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ilias around the world

Where Ilias ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2006–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1975–2025
    #1,286
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #2,026
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1955–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ilias by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,316
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 680
Best rank ever
#2,196
2024
Peak year
2024
66 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,019
Count in 2025
60

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ilias

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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