Illia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪljə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Illia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 2.4K
- ISIceland1 in 8.4K
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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- UkrainianІлля́Illjá(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἨλίαςĒlías(inferred from the name graph)via Ілля́
- HebrewאליהוEliyahu“My God is Yahweh”(inferred from the name graph)via Ілля́
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá).
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Illia 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Illia 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 English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ілля́ (Illjá)
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)
- Ilya Ostapenkob. 1904UAnot in their usual nameSoviet military officer
- Illya Yemetzb. 1956UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian doctor, cardiac surgeon, doctor of medical sciences, professor, honored doctor of Ukraine, member of the European Association of Congenital Heart Surgery.
- Illya Chychkanb. 1967UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian artist
- Illia Kyvab. 1977UAUkrainian politician (1977–2023)
- Ilya Kaminskyb. 1977UAnot in their usual namepoet, critic, translator and professor
- Illya Marchenkob. 1987UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian tennis player
- Illia Nyzhnykb. 1996UAUkrainian chess grandmaster
- Illia Yaremenkob. 1997UAUkrainian Paralympic swimmer
- Illya Zabarnyib. 2002UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian association football player
- Illia Kovtunb. 2003UAUkrainian gymnast
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 41 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 are other forms of the name Illia?
- In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Alijah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Illia a male or female name?
- Illia 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 does the name Illia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Illia?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪljə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Illia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Illia in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled illia.
- Where is Illia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Illia is densest in Poland — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Illia?
- In Poland, the national register counted 16,240 people named Illia in 2026, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Illia compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Illia is the 153rd most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/illiaThe 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, “Illia” — the 153rd most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.