Ilia
The girl's name Ilia has been in the national records since 1912, with 1,077 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,172nd. About 1,000 Ilias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ilia boys named Ilia
Girls and boys called Ilia
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 821 girls and 256 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 34 to 56.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 10 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,077
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 2,278th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,172nd
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 821 / 256
How old the living Ilias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,077 babies given the name since 1912, about 1,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ilias
- Ilia Chavchavadze (1837–1907)Georgian public figure and writer; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church
- Ilia II of Georgia (1933–2026)Patriarch of Georgia
- Ilia Topuria (born 1997)Georgian and Spanish mixed martial artist
- Ilia Vekua (1907–1977)Russian mathematician
- Ilia Malinin (born 2004)American figure skater
- Ilia Kulik (born 1977)Russian figure skater
- Ilia Averbukh (born 1973)Russian ice dancer
- Ilia Sulamanidze (born 2001)Georgian judoka
People named Ilia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ilia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ilia is most concentrated in New York (5.5×), Texas (3.8×), California (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular girls’ names the year Ilia peaked:
Ilia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ilia | 135 | 1,673rd |
| France girls | Ilia | 85 | 3,057th |
| Poland boys | Ilia | 71 birth registrations | 282nd |
| Switzerland boys | Ilia | 62 | 820th |
| England and Wales boys | Ilia | 57 | 2,921st |
| England and Wales girls | Ilia | 42 | 3,541st |
| Belgium boys | Ilia | 16 | 1,216th |
| Poland girls | Ilia | 8 birth registrations | 496th |
| Ireland boys | Ilia | 3 | 829th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ilia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ilia | 52 | 0.004% | 733rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ilia | 8 | 0.002% | 618th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ilia | 2 | 0.003% | 177th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Ilia: rank by region
In 2025, Ilia was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Ilia | 312 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Ilia | 254 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ilia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 10 | 368th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ilia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ilia | 119 | 131 |
| Finland girls | Ilia | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ilia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 847 men called Ilia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Ilia | 130 | 0.129 | 644 |
| Valencia/València | Ilia | 106 | 0.078 | 830 |
| Tarragona | Ilia | 31 | 0.071 | 975 |
| Barcelona | Ilia | 200 | 0.069 | 902 |
| Málaga | Ilia | 53 | 0.061 | 932 |
| Girona | Ilia | 22 | 0.053 | 1,192 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ilia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.