Ilyas

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name from Arabic إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās)

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

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

Ilyas 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
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 186as Илья
  • GEGeorgia1 in 204as ილია

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 Ilyas 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 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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 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)

a male given name from Arabic إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ilyas 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 Ilyas 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)

Ilyas is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Īlyās, Ílyas, Ilyās

  • Indonesian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Morocco

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ilyas', 'Ilyas, Ilyaş, Ilyâs

  • Spanish given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Türkiye, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ilyās, Ilyàs, Ilyâs, Īlŷãs, Ïlÿàs

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Ilyaş, Ilyās

  • Danish given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Türkiye

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Ilyaş, Ilyàs, Ìlyas, Îlỹåṧ, Ìlýäś

  • Finnish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Morocco, Türkiye, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ïlyâs, Îlÿãs, Ilyaş, Ìlÿãs, Ïlýãs

48 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ilyas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, 1. Kutsal kitaplarda adı geçen, yağmurlara hükmeden İsrail Peygamberi. 2. Mersin ağacı.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Swedish, Ilyas är en arabisk och turkisk form av → Elias, och Ilias är den nygrekiska formen av samma namn. Båda stavningarna används i Sverige idag. Ilyas är en profet i Koranen.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, Elias; the prophet Elijah.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In German, männl. Vom., arabische (Ilyäs) und türkische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • high as God, great

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Nizami, b. 1141Elias Lönnrot, b. 1802Walt Disney, b. 1901Elias Canetti, b. 1905Elia Kazan, b. 1909Elias Menachem Stein, b. 1931Michel Temer, b. 1940Martin Seligman, b. 1942Elias Koteas, b. 1961Mattéo Guendouzi, b. 1999
  • Nizamib. 1141AZnot in their usual namePersian poet
  • Elias Lönnrotb. 1802FIFinnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)
  • Walt Disneyb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
  • Elias Canettib. 1905BGBulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
  • Elia Kazanb. 1909USnot in their usual nameAmerican director and actor (1909–2003)
  • Elias Menachem Steinb. 1931USAmerican mathematician (1931-2018)
  • Michel Temerb. 1940BRnot in their usual name24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th President of Brazil from 2016 to 2019
  • Martin Seligmanb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychologist and writer
  • Elias Koteasb. 1961CACanadian actor
  • Mattéo Guendouzib. 1999FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1999)

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)

InformalMerhaba Ilyas,Hi Ilyas, (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 83 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Ilyas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,289
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,547
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020612—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—294#1,469
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—201—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025200—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#28,552
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206#8,289

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България

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

What does the name Ilyas mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name from Arabic إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Ilyas?
In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Elia are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Ilyas?
A machine transcription gives /iʎjas̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Ilyas a male or female name?
Ilyas 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 Ilyas 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 Ilyas?
In Brazil, the national register counted 190,432 people named Elias in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Ilyas compared with other names?
In Russia, Ilyas 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, “Ilyas” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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