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Throughout the world, Ylya (Иля , Ylya , Илиа ) is a rare gender-neutral first name. The first name Ylya is habitual in Bulgaria, where it is a rare male name, Kazakhstan, where it is a rare predominantly female, but scarcely boy's name, and Russia, where it is a rare gender-neutral name. Likewise, Ylya is the last name as well as the forename.
Ylya is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Illya Kuryakin , the fictional character from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev , the character in the play "The Seagull"; Ilya Ilyich Oblomov , character in Oblomov and Iliya Ilich Telyegin , the character in the play "Uncle Vanya".