Ilias
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Greek form of Elijah/Élie, from Hebrew Eliyahu
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 38 countries
/ilias/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from ηλιας
Ilias is a male 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.
- GRGreece≈1 in 350(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 180as Илья
- FIFinland1 in 188as 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 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)
- #114 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 455 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 354 (inferred from the name graph)
≈820,000 named Илья, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Elias in BR Brazil, US United States, MX Mexico and 2 more, Илья in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Iliyas in IN India 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.
Cited for this meaning 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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ilias, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #50 | ≈820,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | register #26 | Илья | 252 |
| BR Brazil | #99 | 190,432as Elias | 1 in 1.1K | 191K | Elias | 220 |
| MX Mexico | #220 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 658 | Elias | 220 |
| US United States | #672 | 88,033as Elias | 1 in 3.8K | 88K | Elias | 455 |
| IN India | — | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 466 | Iliyas | 115 |
| BY Belarus | #40 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 187 | 3 | Илья | 72 |
| SE Sweden | #386 | 36,200as Elias | 1 in 282 | 36K | Elias | 84 |
| FI Finland | — | 29,626as Elias | 1 in 188 | 37K | Elias | 42 |
| GR Greece | #117 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 354 | 371 | Ηλιας | 174 |
| 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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ilias Iliadisb. 1986GRGreek judoka
- Ilias Chairb. 1997BEMoroccan association football player
- Ilias Akhomachb. 2004MAMoroccan association football 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)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)80 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Ilias?
- In Greek /ilias/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Ilias?
- Mondonomo estimates about 817 thousand people named Илья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Mexico, United States and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Ilias a male or female name?
- Ilias is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024), Spain (INE), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Ilias?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iliasThe 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, “Ilias” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.