Ilya
Ilya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 310.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201848 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1966
- 1,161people given the name
The story in the numbers
931 boys have been named Ilya in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 48 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 39%.
Ilya is used for both sexes: 20% of its bearers are girls (230), most of them born around 2021.
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Ilya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Ilya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zakariapeak 2017
- Tuckerpeak 2014
- Keshavpeak 2023
- Ibraheempeak 2015
- Lukaspeak 2019
- Mahdipeak 2024
- Micaiahpeak 2014
- Koltonpeak 2012
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.