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Ilias

Ilias is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 2,190th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,304th. About 1,000 Iliases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Ilias

By the numbers

Total US births
1,019
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
12
Peak year
2024
Best rank
2,190th
Rank in 2025
2,304th
First recorded
1975

How old the living Iliases are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,019 babies given the name since 1975, about 1,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 720 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 Iliass

People named Ilias with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Ilias is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ilias is most concentrated in California (5.4×), Texas (2.6×), New York (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Ilias peaked:

All the names of 2024

Ilias elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Ilias 3,615 304th
Belgium boys Ilias 3,081 66th
Italy boys Ilias 1,222
Switzerland boys Ilias 415 295th
England and Wales boys Ilias 324 1,235th
Poland boys Ilias 40 birth registrations 358th
Ireland boys Ilias 6 596th
Scotland boys Ilias 3 703rd

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.

Ilias: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Ilias 286 0.023% 287th
French boys Switzerland Ilias 125 0.029% 173rd
Italian boys Switzerland Ilias 4 0.006% 180th

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.

By canton, Ilias is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.06% of children were given it – 60 of them.

Ilias: rank by region

In 2025, Ilias was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Ilias 246 24

In 2012, Ilias was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

Region Spelling Place Children
Melilla Ilias 10 9

In 2024, Ilias was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Ilias 8 1

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ilias appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (89th) and Province of West Flanders (138th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names – 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.

Ilias by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 35 321st

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ilias 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
the Netherlands boys Ilias 1,865 2,022
Finland boys Ilias 101 163

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Ilias lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,602 men called Ilias 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
Ceuta Ilias 167 3.962 52
Melilla Ilias 121 2.765 78
Almería Ilias 93 0.236 401
Girona Ilias 97 0.233 404
Tarragona Ilias 85 0.194 465
Murcia Ilias 141 0.177 434

Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 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

Ilias against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.