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Ilia

The name carries the sense "my god is Yahweh", a Greek form with Hebrew roots. In Poland it stays rare and almost always male: of the roughly 1,300 people who hold it, nearly all are men.

Ilia Pronunciation

Ilia is pronounced EEL-yah (/ˈilja/).

Alive in 2025
1,311
Newborns 2025
10
National rank
#847

What Ilia means

Where Ilia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Ilia reached Polish through Greek, which shaped it from the Hebrew name behind the prophet Elijah. The sense it carries is a short confession of faith: my god is Yahweh. The name is old.

In Russian it found a long home, spelled Ilya. That spelling belongs to Ilya Repin, the painter who gave the nineteenth century its portraits of barge haulers and village priests, and to Ilya Muromets, the bogatyr of the old bylina songs who lay motionless for thirty years before he rose to defend the land. Both men, one real and one legendary, wore a Greek name built on a Hebrew sentence.

Picture a teacher reading a class register in a Polish school, pausing a beat at Ilia before the next name. A form that looks eastern, an origin running back through Greek scribes to the Hebrew Eliyahu, and a meaning that never shifted: my god is Yahweh.

How many people are named Ilia

1 in 16755 men in Poland is named Ilia. 1,311 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #847 among male names.

People with the name Ilia 2019 → 2025
1,311 +1,080 since 2019
2020 306 +75
2021 392 +86
2022 601 +209
2023 1,040 +439
2024 1,192 +152
2025 1,311 +119

Ilia's popularity over time

10 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #696 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.

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10 newborns with the name Ilia in 2025
national rank #696 that year

Where parents choose Ilia

Ilia is most popular in Pomeranian, 286% above the national average (10 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+129%) and Masovian (+77%). It is least common in Łódź, 10% below average.

Chosen most
  • Pomeranian
    +286%
    1 in 14,732 babies
  • Lubusz
    +129%
    1 in 24,829 babies
  • Masovian
    +77%
    1 in 32,206 babies
Chosen least
  • Łódź
    −10%
    1 in 63,359 babies

Ilia as a middle name

Ilia is a first name for 1,311 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2317th, between Hermanus (16) and Isaias (16).

As a first name
1,311
As a middle name
16
first name 99% middle name 1%
Middle-name ranking men

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