Iliyas

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɪlɪɪəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Iliyas 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 Iliyas 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)

≈760,000 named Илья, est.

#114 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
455 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 186 (inferred from the name graph)

Russia, est., as Илья

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ИльяCyrillic(measured from records)
EliasLatin(measured from records)
איליהHebrew(measured from records)
ΗλιαςGreek(measured from records)
ইলিয়াসBengali(measured from records)
ილიაGeorgian(measured from records)
อิลยัสThai(measured from records)
ኢሊያስEthiopic(measured from records)
ԵղիաArmenian(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Iliyas 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.

Where Iliyas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#50≈760,000 est.≈1 in 186#26Илья252
BR Brazil#99190,432as Elias1 in 1.1K191KElias220
US United States#67288,033as Elias1 in 3.8K88KElias455
CN China—≈69,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Илья16
TR Türkiye#141≈66,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Ilyas110
SE Sweden#38636,200as Elias1 in 28236KElias84
BY Belarus#40≈33,000 est.≈1 in 2833Илья72
FI Finland—29,626as Elias1 in 18837KElias42
GE Georgia#7619,622as ილია1 in 20420KIlia72

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Iliyas is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Īliyās, Iliyās

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Iliyās, Ìlìýáś, Īlīyas, Îlïÿâs

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Ilijas

  • Bulgarian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, India, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Илияс, Iliяs

  • Russian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek

    Also written Илияс, Илйяс, Йлияс, Iliyaş

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Iliyas जी,Hi Iliyas, (English)

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)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Iliyas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—27#20,327
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#23,683
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#22,729
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202012—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201910—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20186—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018——

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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

How do you pronounce Iliyas?
A machine transcription gives /ɪlɪɪəs/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Iliyas a male or female name?
Iliyas 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 Iliyas?
In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Alijah are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Iliyas 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 Iliyas?
In Brazil, the national register counted 190,432 people named Elias in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Iliyas compared with other names?
In Russia, Iliyas is the 50th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Iliyas” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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