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Illia

A Hebrew name meaning "my god is Yahweh", carried into Poland mostly by Ukrainian families. It goes to boys almost without exception: of about 14,700 people who hold it, barely thirty are women, and meeting one at all stays uncommon.

Illia Pronunciation

Illia is pronounced EELL-yah (/ˈillja/).

Alive in 2025
14,699
Newborns 2025
34
National rank
#309
Meaning & Origin

What Illia means

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

Illia is the Ukrainian form of a Hebrew name, Eliyahu, which means "my god is Yahweh." The name belongs to the prophet Elijah, who in the Hebrew scriptures confronts the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel. Ukrainian smoothed it into Illia, keeping that old declaration inside an open, rolling sound.

The prophet came first. For many Ukrainian families the name still arrives with Ilya's Day, the feast of Elijah on 2 August, long linked in folk belief to thunder and the first cool break of summer. In Ukrainian the ending -a on a man's name sounds ordinary; in Polish it can read as feminine at first glance.

On a Polish class register today, Illia sits among children whose families crossed from Ukraine, the spelling kept as it stands at the urząd. The old sense holds: my god is Yahweh.

How many

How many people are named Illia

1 in 1455 men in Poland is named Illia. 14,699 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #309 among male names.

Living Illias · 2019 → 2025
14,699 +13,148 since 2019
+544 2020
+785 2021
+1,287 2022
+8,005 2023
+1,338 2024
+1,189 2025
Trend

Illia's popularity over time

34 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #422 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2011. Still the #309 name among living men, even as it slips to #422 among newborns.

34 newborn Illias in 2025
national rank #422 that year
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Regions

Where Illia is most popular

Illia is most popular in West Pomeranian, 89% above the national average (11 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+68%) and Lower Silesian (+57%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Lubusz, 62% and 42% below average respectively.

More common than average Less common than average
Middle name

Illia as a middle name

Illia is a first name for 14,699 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2515th, between Hòa (14) and Ingmar (14).

As a first name
14,699
As a middle name
14
first name · 100% middle name · 0%
Middle-name ranking · men

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