Ilias

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in French: Greek form of Elijah/Élie, from Hebrew Eliyahu

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

Ilias 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
  • GRGreece≈1 in 1.8K(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 Ilias 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 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Greece, 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)

9 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 Ηλιας in GR Greece.

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)

Greek form of Elijah/Élie, from Hebrew Eliyahu.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ilias is read(measured from records)

Ilias is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French28%

    Greek form of Elijah/Élie, from Hebrew Eliyahu.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Forme grecque/orthographique d’Élie, du nom hébreu Eliyahu, « mon Dieu est Yahvé ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Greek14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilias in Greek.

  • English12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilias in English.

  • German7.2%

    männl. Vom., neugriechische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Hindi5.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ilias in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ilias 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 Ilias 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
GR Greece#117≈5,900 est.≈1 in 1.8K371Ηλιας174

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); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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)

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

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Brazil, Netherlands

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Iliaş, Iliàs, Îlîâs, Ïlîâs, Iliaș

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Ilīās, Iliaş, Ili̐as, I̲lías, Iliás

  • Dutch given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Netherlands, United States, South Africa

    Also written Ïlîãs

  • Danish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Ïlîãs, Ĭlìaŝ

  • Bulgarian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Илиас, Iliaš, Илйас, Илиаш

59 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Iliaz Vrioni, b. 1882Ilias Tsirimokos, b. 1907Ilias Poursanidis, b. 1972Ilias Panagiotaros, b. 1973Ilias Lappas, b. 1979Elias Charalambous, b. 1980Ilias Iliadis, b. 1986Ilias Addab, b. 1989Ilias Chair, b. 1997Ilias Akhomach, b. 2004

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 80 sources across 38 countries.

Reference works 7

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 Ilias mean, and where does it come from?
Greek form of Elijah/Élie, from Hebrew Eliyahu. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
What are other forms of the name Ilias?
In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Elia are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ilias have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 764 thousand people named Илья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Is Ilias a male or female name?
Ilias 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.
How common is the name Ilias?
In Brazil, the national register counted 190,432 people named Elias in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Ilias compared with other names?
In Russia, Ilias 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, “Ilias” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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