Iliia
Fewer than 120 people in Poland carry it, and nearly all of them are men. A Russian form with Hebrew roots, meaning "my god is Yahweh".
Iliia Pronunciation
Iliia is pronounced EELY-yah (/ˈiljja/).
What Iliia means
Where Iliia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iliia reaches back to the Hebrew Eliyahu, a theophoric name whose parts spell a short declaration: my god is Yahweh. The prophet Elijah carries that same root in the Hebrew Bible. Elijah stood against the priests of Baal. The name held a claim about which God was real.
In Russian the name became Ilya, and it grew famous in folk song. Ilya Muromets, the great bogatyr of the byliny, sat unmoving for thirty-three years before rising to defend Kiev. The painter Ilya Repin gave the Russian form a second life on canvas in the nineteenth century.
On a Polish class register, Iliia sits near the Eliaszes and marks a family with an eastern ear. The spelling feels Russian. The meaning stays Hebrew: my god is Yahweh.
How many people are named Iliia
1 in 188904 men in Poland is named Iliia. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3157 among male names.