In 2025, 200 US boys were named Ilyas, making it the 1,075th most common boys’ name of the year, up 180 places from #1,255 in 2024. That is 42 more than the 158 boys named Ilyas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,075, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 200. For comparison, it was #1,773 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilyas in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 2,196 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 905 babies named Ilyas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,275 US boys were named Ilyas; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 200. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,540 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ilyas ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #363 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elias (129,502 babies since 1880) and Elyas (2,084 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ilyaas, Ilyass and Ilyes are summarised on this page.