Ilijan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ilǐjan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ilijan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 650Kas Ilian(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 136K
- ALAlbania1 in 64Kas Ilian
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ilijan 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 136K (inferred from the name graph)
512 named Ilian, 2020
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ilian in US United States, ES Spain, NL Netherlands.
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 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilijan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 512as Ilian | 1 in 650K | 299 | Ilian | 113 |
| ES Spain | 328as Ilian | 1 in 152K | 328 | Ilian | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 210as Ilian | 1 in 1M | 210 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 142as Ilian | 1 in 122K | 133 | Ilian | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 141as Ilian | 1 in 72K | 141 | — | 6 |
| AL Albania | 48as Ilian | 1 in 64K | 48 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 39as Ilian | 1 in 86K | 39 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 31 | 1 in 136K | 31 | — | — |
512 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ilijan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a barangay of Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Iliyan Nedkovb. 1958BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian Olympic judoka
- Ilian Mihovb. 1966BGeconomist
- Iliyan Kiryakovb. 1967BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilijan Simeonovb. 1974BGBulgarian association football player
- Ilianb. 1982BGBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Iliyan Mitsanskib. 1985BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Iliyan Ilievb. 1988BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilijan Krasimirov Arsovb. 1990BGBulgarian association football player (1990-)
- Iliyan Stefanovb. 1998BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Iliyan Stoynovb. 2001BGnot in their usual namebadminton 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)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 31 | #2,974 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 27 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1 | #11,243 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ilijan?
- A machine transcription gives /ilǐjan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Ilijan a male or female name?
- Ilijan 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 Ilijan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 512 people named Ilian, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ilijan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ilijan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 136 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ilijan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 31 people named Ilijan in 2021, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ilijan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilijanThe 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, “Ilijan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.