Ilya

Russian variation of Elijah

"the Lord is my God"

Ilya Origin and Meaning

The name Ilya is a boy's name of Greek, Russian origin meaning "the Lord is my God".

A rare example of an a-ending boy's name that sounds masculine, Ilya has a large measure of creative Slavic charm. >p>Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character in Goncharov's novel "Oblomov." Unfortunately, he spends most of his life in his bathrobe and slippers.

Ilya Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 562 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Ilya

• 562 Nameberry 2025
• 379 Germany 2016

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Famous People Named Ilya

• Ilya Yefimovich Repin Russian realist painter
• Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov Russian ice hockey player
• Ilya Valeryevich Kovalchuk Russian ice hockey player
• Ilya Mikhailovich Frank Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Ilya Romanovich Prigogine Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• Ilya Yankelevich Gabay Russian civil rights activist
• Ilya Perfilyev Russian explorer

The name Ilya in Pop Culture

• Ilya Muromets Russian folk hero
• Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev character in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull"
• Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin character in Vladimir Obruchev's "Plutonia"
• Ilya "Ilyusha" Snegiryov character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
• Ilya Pasternak character in video game "Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation"
• Ilya Kuryakin main character on TV's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
• Ilya Tretiak character in 1997 movie "The Saint"
• Ilya character in "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse
• Ilya Julian's real name in visual novel The Arcana