Il'Ja
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Il'Ja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá).
- RURussia≈1 in 186as Илья(inferred from the name graph)
- GEGeorgia1 in 204as ილია
- SESweden1 in 282as Elias
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 Il'Ja 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)
- #114 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 455 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 186 (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 named Илья, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Илья
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Elias in BR Brazil, US United States, FI Finland and 1 more, Илья in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Ilyas in TR Türkiye and Ilia in GE Georgia.
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)
Borrowed from Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá).
Sources 2
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Il'Ja 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #50 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 186 | #26 | Илья | 252 |
| BR Brazil | #99 | 190,432as Elias | 1 in 1.1K | 191K | Elias | 220 |
| US United States | #672 | 88,033as Elias | 1 in 3.8K | 88K | Elias | 455 |
| CN China | — | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Илья | 16 |
| TR Türkiye | #141 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Ilyas | 110 |
| SE Sweden | #386 | 36,200as Elias | 1 in 282 | 36K | Elias | 84 |
| BY Belarus | #40 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | 3 | Илья | 72 |
| FI Finland | — | 29,626as Elias | 1 in 188 | 37K | Elias | 42 |
| GE Georgia | #76 | 19,622as ილია | 1 in 204 | 20K | Ilia | 72 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
- Ilya Ulyanovb. 1831RUnot in their usual nameRussian teacher, father of Vladimir Lenin (1831-1886)
- Ilia Repinb. 1844UAnot in their usual nameRussian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)
- Élie Metchnikoffb. 1845FRnot in their usual nameRussian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
- Ilya Ehrenburgb. 1891UAnot in their usual nameSoviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
- Ilya Frankb. 1908RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist
- Ilya Prigogineb. 1917BEnot in their usual nameRussian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapirob. 1929RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1929–2009)
- Ilya Oleynikovb. 1947RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian comic actor and television personality (1947-2012)
- Elya Baskinb. 1950USnot in their usual nameRussian actor
- Ilya Ponomarevb. 1975RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Il'Ja mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Il'Ja a male or female name?
- Il'Ja is a male 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 Il'Ja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 764 thousand people named Илья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Il'Ja?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 190,432 people named Elias in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Il'Ja compared with other names?
- In Russia, Il'Ja is the 50th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/il'jaThe 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, “Il'Ja” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.