Meaning not yet researched.
Ilya: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,623 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,623 in 2018; #3,153 in 2025. About 59% of babies named Ilya in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,153 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,623.
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Ilya: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,623 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 48 (2018).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Ilya, making it the 3,153rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 401 places from #3,554 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 32 boys named Ilya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,623, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #3,182 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Ilya, making it the 5,027th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,031 places from #7,058 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 16 girls named Ilya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,027, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 26. For comparison, it was #13,541 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilya in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 1,226 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 454 babies named Ilya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 352 US boys were named Ilya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elias (129,502 babies since 1880), Elie (3,405 babies since 1880), Elia (10,159 babies since 1880) and Ely (5,087 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ilya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,027 | 38 | #3,153 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,058 | 32 | #3,554 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,829 | 34 | #3,446 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,780 | 27 | #4,031 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,146 | 38 | #3,146 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,167 | 38 | #3,044 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,300 | 38 | #3,121 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,914 | 48 | #2,623 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,814 | 32 | #3,480 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,749 | 27 | #3,922 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,541 | 36 | #3,182 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,777 | 31 | #3,492 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,434 | 34 | #3,225 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,633 | 40 | #2,923 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,822 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,742 | 32 | #3,402 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,835 | 28 | #3,763 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,577 | 22 | #4,451 |
| 2007 | — | — | 30 | #3,542 |
| 2006 | — | — | 26 | #3,828 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,275 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,482 |
| 2003 | — | — | 32 | #3,018 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,543 | 14 | #5,227 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,893 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,462 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,284 | 22 | #3,516 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,742 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,540 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,710 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,617 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,225 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,327 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,831 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,817 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,741 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,677 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,470 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,203 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,348 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,141 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,764 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,949 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).