Ilič
surname · Latin script
/ilit͡ʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
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.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 250(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 1.1K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ilić in RS Serbia, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and 1 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Serbo-Croatian Ilić.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #6 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 250 | listed | Ilić | 97 |
| HR Croatia | #59 | 3,907 | 1 in 1.1K | 3.9K | Ilić | 69 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #16 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ilić | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,779 | 1 in 4.7K | 1.8K | Ilic | 26 |
| SI Slovenia | #209 | 1,405 | 1 in 1.5K | 1.4K | Ilić | 14 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-Marc Ilicb. 1954FRFrench politician
- Darja Iličb. 1965SIresearcher
- Branko Iličb. 1969SISlovenian economist
- Andrej Šegula-IličSIresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 55 | #7,147 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 30 | #18,402 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Ilič mean, and where does it come from?
- From Serbo-Croatian Ilić. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ilič?
- A machine transcription gives /ilit͡ʃ/ (IPA) for Slovak.
- In which country does Ilič have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Ilič in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilić.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Ilič?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ili%C4%8DThe 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, “Ilič” — the 6th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.