Ilya
Russian variation of Elijah
"the Lord is my God"Share
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Updated Wed Apr 17 2024
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.
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Famous People Named Ilya
- Ilya Yefimovich RepinRussian realist painter
- Ilya Nikolayevich BryzgalovRussian ice hockey player
- Ilya Valeryevich KovalchukRussian ice hockey player
- Ilya Mikhailovich FrankRussian physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Ilya Romanovich PrigogineBelgian physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Ilya Yankelevich GabayRussian civil rights activist
- Ilya PerfilyevRussian explorer
Ilya in Pop Culture
- Ilya MurometsRussian folk hero
- Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayevcharacter in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull"
- Ilya Stepanovich Igolkincharacter in Vladimir Obruchev's "Plutonia"
- Ilya "Ilyusha" Snegiryovcharacter in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Ilya Pasternakcharacter in video game "Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation"
- Ilya Kuryakinmain character on TV's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
- Ilya Tretiakcharacter in 1997 movie "The Saint"
- Ilyacharacter in "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse
- IlyaJulian's real name in visual novel The Arcana