Ия
given name · Cyrillic script
Meaning: Russian short form used as a given name; meaning uncertain
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ия is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 36Kas Ія
- LVLatvia1 in 5.6Kas Ija
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ия itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ія in UA Ukraine and Iya in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Russian short form used as a given name; meaning uncertain.
Sources 1
- Энциклопедия имен
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ия counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the ru-zags-hf register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ия is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, a female given name, Iya, from Ancient Greek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, Имя греческого происхождения; точное значение неясно.
as a nameЭнциклопедия имен
In Russian, фиалка
as a nameЭнциклопедия имен
In Russian, From Ancient Greek: ‘violet’, ‘flower’.
as a nameЭнциклопедия имен
In Russian, short name; origin uncertain
as a nameЭнциклопедия имен
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Iya Marksb. 1897Russian actor (1897-1988)
- Iya Matsyukb. 1920USactor (1920-2008)
- Ija Majakb. 1922RUnot in their usual nameRussian historian
- Iya Arepinab. 1930RUSoviet actress (1930-2003)
- Ija Savvinab. 1936RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress (1936-2011)
- Saratu Iya Aliyub. 1948NG20th president of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture
- Iya Nechayevab. 1959RURussian linguist
- Iya Kivab. 1984UAUkrainian poet, translator, journalist, critic
- Iya Gavrilovab. 1987RURussian ice hockey player
- Iya LabunkaUSAmerican film producer and production manager
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | EGR ZAGS Russian Names — HuggingFace dataset (rustemgareev, CC BY-SA 4.0) | — | — | #288 |
| RU Russia | Russian Names Encyclopedia (Khigir, 2003) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ия mean, and where does it come from?
- Russian short form used as a given name; meaning uncertain. Recorded by Энциклопедия имен.
- How do you pronounce Ия?
- A machine transcription gives /ijə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Ия a male or female name?
- Ия is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ия have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Ия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ия.
- How common is the name Ия?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 747 people named Ia, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Ия compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ия is the 535th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ия?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%B8%D1%8FThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ия” — the 535th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.