Ilič

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

/ilit͡ʃ/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated

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Ilič is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Serbo-Croatian Ilić. Ilič is also written Илић in Cyrillic and อลก in Thai.

  • RSSerbia≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 870few records
  • HRCroatia1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈38,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
114 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 175 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Ilič in other scripts: Cyrillic and Thai

(measured from records)
IličLatin(measured from records)
ИлићIlič in Cyrillic(measured from records)
อลกIlič in Thai(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ilić in RS Serbia, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and 2 more and Ilic in CH Switzerland.

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.

How to pronounce Ilič

  • Slovak:/ilit͡ʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Slovenian:/íːlít͡ʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Czech:/ɪlɪt͡ʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Serbo-Croatian Ilić.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Ilič is found

(measured from records)

Ilič 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 Ilič is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#6≈38,000 est.≈1 in 175listedIlić97
HR Croatia#593,9071 in 1.1K3.9KIlić69
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#16≈3,600 est.≈1 in 867—Ilić22
CH Switzerland—1,7791 in 4.7K1.8KIlic26
SI Slovenia#2091,4051 in 1.5K1.4KIlić14
ME Montenegro#102≈430 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Ilić11

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

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

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Serbia, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Ilic, Ilić

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ilic, Ilić, Il'Ič, Îlic, Il'Ic

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Ilic, Iliç, Ilić, Il'Ic, Il'Ic̆

  • Russian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Il'Ič, Il'Ic, Ilíč, Il'Ic̆, Iliç

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Ilic, Ilić, Ilicz, Il'Ič, Iliç

3 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)

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)
FormalVážený pane / paní Ilič,Dear Ilič, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Ilič,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ilič mean, and where does it come from?
From Serbo-Croatian Ilić. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Ilič?
It depends on the language: in Slovak /ilit͡ʃ/; in Slovenian /íːlít͡ʃ/; in Czech /ɪlɪt͡ʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Ilič?
Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Ilič in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilić. After it come Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Switzerland and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Ilič?
In Croatia, the national register counted 3,907 people named Ilič in 2021, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Ilič compared with other names?
In Serbia, Ilič is the 6th most common surname of 45,065 surnames 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, “Ilič” — the 6th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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