Ilie
The same Hebrew root as Eliasz: Eliyahu, "my god is Yahweh", worn down in the Balkans to the clipped Ilie. In Poland it stays rare, an exclusively male name carried by around 260 men, with no boys given it in recent years.
Ilie Pronunciation
Ilie is pronounced EEL-ye (/ˈiljɛ/).
What Ilie means
Where Ilie comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ilie traces back to Hebrew, to Eliyahu, and it packs a full declaration into a handful of letters: my god is Yahweh. Behind the name stands the prophet Elijah. In Romania and across the Balkans the older form wore down to the bright, clipped Ilie, while Polish keeps the same root in Eliasz.
For a long time the name belonged above all to a saint. In the Orthodox calendar the feast of Sfântul Ilie falls on 20 July, and in Romanian folk belief he governs summer thunderstorms. His name-day is old.
The tennis player Ilie Năstase carried it onto courts across the world in the 1970s. Same clipped form, same Hebrew sentence beneath it. My god is Yahweh, still legible in Ilie.
How many people are named Ilie
1 in 82418 men in Poland is named Ilie. 259 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1908 among male names.
Ilie as a middle name
Ilie is a first name for 259 men in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2790th, between Ifeanyichukwu (12) and Jai (12).
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#2788 Hudson12
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#2790 Ilie12
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#2791 Jai12
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