Iliyan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iliyan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 511Kas Илиан
- DKDenmark1 in 279K
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 Iliyan 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ilian in US United States, ES Spain and Илиан in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iliyan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #71 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Iliyan | 111 |
| US United States | — | 512as Ilian | 1 in 650K | 299 | Ilian | 86 |
| ES Spain | — | 328as Ilian | 1 in 152K | 328 | Ilian | 29 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 511K | #2,135 | Илиан | 83 |
| BR Brazil | — | 210as Ilian | 1 in 1M | 210 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 142as Ilian | 1 in 122K | 133 | Iliyan | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 141as Ilian | 1 in 72K | 141 | — | 7 |
| AL Albania | — | 48as Ilian | 1 in 64K | 48 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 39as Ilian | 1 in 86K | 39 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | Iliyan | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Iliyan Nedkovb. 1958BGBulgarian Olympic judoka
- Ilian Mihovb. 1966BGnot in their usual nameeconomist
- Iliyan Kiryakovb. 1967BGBulgarian footballer
- Ilijan Simeonovb. 1974BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian association football player
- Ilianb. 1982BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Iliyan Mitsanskib. 1985BGBulgarian footballer
- Iliyan Ilievb. 1988BGBulgarian footballer
- Ilijan Krasimirov Arsovb. 1990BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian association football player (1990-)
- Iliyan Stefanovb. 1998BGBulgarian footballer
- Iliyan Stoynovb. 2001BGbadminton player
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 168 | #10,347 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 166 | #4,854 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,061 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #4,247 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 10 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Iliyan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Iliyan in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iliyan.
- Is Iliyan a male or female name?
- Iliyan 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.
- What are other forms of the name Iliyan?
- In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Alijah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Iliyan?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 21 people named Iliyan, about 1 in 279 thousand residents.
- How common is Iliyan compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Iliyan is the 71st most common given name of 22,906 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/iliyanThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Iliyan” — the 71st most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.