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Iliya

#7,872 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Elijah

Iliya has been given to 240 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #7,872 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% boys, 19% girls all-time.

Babies named Iliya, 2025

1 in 332,000

Iliya over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Iliya over time

In 2025, Iliya went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19952025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Iliya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Elijah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iliya means

Iliya is a form of Elijah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elijah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 194 boys were recorded with the name Iliya between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2011; its best national rank was #6,053 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,429 in 2020 to #7,872 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,055 in 2015 to #7,872 in 2025.

In the United States, 46 girls were recorded with the name Iliya between 2013 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2023; its best national rank was #9,873 in 2023.

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 Iliya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,872
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iliya 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iliya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iliyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iliya was born before 2012 — so the typical Iliya is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
194
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Iliya 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
+1,458
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,443
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,183
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2011 (14)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,053
2011

Spellings of Iliya

Iliya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 20.2% against Iliya's 1.4%.

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 Iliya is used

Across 1910–2025, Iliya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,340,977 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Iliya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Iliya around the world

Where Iliya 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
    2012–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #3,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Iliya by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,872
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,443
Best rank ever
#6,053
2011
Peak year
2011
14 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
194
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,873
2023
Peak year
2023
10 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iliya

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

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Sibling names for Iliya

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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