Illyria
#15,801 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Illyria has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #15,801 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Illyria, 2025
1 in 663,000
Illyria over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Illyria?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,801
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Illyria sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Illyria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Illyrias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Illyria was born before 2015 — so the typical Illyria is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 154
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.1% of all recorded uses (71).
Is Illyria 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
- −1,667
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,992
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,386
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 41.7%
- Peak was 2023 (12)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.5% average annual change
Spellings of Illyria
Illyria is not the most common spelling — Ilaria is, with 34.8% against Illyria's 6.8%.
Illyria around the world
Where Illyria 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 & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
- France2016–2018#7,393in 2018
- Canada2018–2018#3,384in 2018
- South Australia2006–2006#782in 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.
Illyria by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Illyria
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Illyria
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.