Iliya

given name · Latin script

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

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

Iliya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 761K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 97K
  • ISIceland1 in 117K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

437 people, 2020

Sources
136 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Iliya 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 Iliya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4371 in 761K380Iliya136
ES Spain—1811 in 276K197Iliya12
SE Sweden—1051 in 97K105—5
PL Poland—781 in 491K78Iliya1
DK Denmark—381 in 154K35——
LV Latvia—71 in 269K7—1
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——
NG Nigeria#842——listedIliya55

437 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); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Iliya is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Iran, Kenya

    Also written Iliyà

  • Bulgarian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Nigeria, Russia, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Iliyà

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Iran, Türkiye, Libya

    Also written Īlīyā, Īliyā, Ilīyā, Ilīya

45 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)

19001920194019601980Ilia Peikov, b. 1911Iliya Vasilev Cheshmedjiev, b. 1930Iliya Argirov, b. 1932Iliya Kirchev, b. 1932Iliya Dobrev, b. 1942Ilija Todev, b. 1952Utkin Ilya Valentinovich, b. 1955Ilya Zagorov, b. 1968Iliya Iliev, b. 1974Ilia Kushev, b. 1980

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)

InformalHi Iliya,

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 41 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Iliya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3#65,255

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Is Iliya a male or female name?
Iliya 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 Iliya?
In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Elia are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Iliya?
A machine transcription gives /ɪlɪjə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Iliya have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 437 people named Iliya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iliya.
Where is Iliya most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iliya is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 97 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Iliya?
In the United States, the national register counted 437 people named Iliya in 2020, about 1 in 761 thousand residents.
How common is Iliya compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Iliya is the 842nd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Iliya” — the 842nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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