Ilya
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Ilya
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 is also given to girls, where it ranks #5027 in the US.
Pronounced EEL-yah.
As of October 2026, Ilya ranked #3153 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2623 in 2018, Nameberry popularity #456.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,491 | 31 | 16.1 |
| 2015 | #3,181 | 36 | 18.8 |
| 2016 | #3,921 | 27 | 14.2 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 32 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | #2,623 | 48 | 26.4 |
| 2019 | #3,121 | 38 | 21.2 |
| 2020 | #3,044 | 38 | 22 |
| 2021 | #3,145 | 38 | 21.7 |
| 2022 | #4,028 | 27 | 15.5 |
| 2023 | #3,442 | 34 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | #3,623 | 31 | 18 |
| 2025 | #3,153 | 38 | 22.2 |
World rankings
Ilya for boys
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Ilya on lists
Famous Ilyas
- Ilya Yefimovich RepinBoy
Russian realist painter
- Ilya Nikolayevich BryzgalovBoy
Russian ice hockey player
- Ilya Valeryevich KovalchukBoy
Russian ice hockey player
- Ilya Mikhailovich FrankBoy
Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Ilya Romanovich PrigogineBoy
Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Ilya Yankelevich GabayBoy
Russian civil rights activist
- Ilya PerfilyevBoy
Russian explorer
- Ilya Igorevich SorokinBoy
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Ilya in pop culture
- Ilya MurometsBoy
Russian folk hero
- Ilya Afanasyevich ShamrayevBoy
character in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull"
- Ilya Stepanovich IgolkinBoy
character in Vladimir Obruchev's "Plutonia"
- Ilya "Ilyusha" SnegiryovBoy
character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Ilya PasternakBoy
character in video game "Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation"
- Ilya KuryakinBoy
main character on TV's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
- Ilya TretiakBoy
character in 1997 movie "The Saint"
- IlyaBoy
character in "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse
- IlyaBoy
Julian's real name in visual novel The Arcana
- Ilya Rozanov Boy
Character in the Game Changer series by Rachel Reid