Ilje
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ɪljə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Ilje is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 8 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2M (inferred from the name graph)
8 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Ilje
- Dutch:/ɪljə/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ilje/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ilje 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | — | — | — | Ilje | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 10 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 7 | — | — |
8 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cho Il-jeb. 1928KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ilje?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /ɪljə/; in Italian /ilje/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ilje a male or female name?
- Ilje is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Ilje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 8 people named Ilje, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ilje most common?
- Ilje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ilje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 8 people named Ilje, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ilje?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iljeThe 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, “Ilje” — ranked 20463rd in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.