Ilkhom
Just about 120 men in Poland carry it, and no boys got it last year, so most Poles have never met one. The name comes from outside Poland and means "inspiration".
Ilkhom Pronunciation
Ilkhom is pronounced EELK-khom (/ˈilkxɔm/).
What Ilkhom means
Where Ilkhom comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ilkhom is a name from Uzbek and Tajik, and it means inspiration. The word behind it is Arabic ilhām (إلهام), the sense of a thought that arrives from beyond the person thinking it. Central Asia took the Arabic term and made it a name a boy could carry.
There is a real place that wears it. The Ilkhom Theatre opened in Tashkent in 1976 under the director Mark Weil. It became one of the first independent theatres in the Soviet Union, and it chose the word for inspiration as its name.
In Poland the name is rare, and it has no place on the name day calendar. A teacher reading a class register might pause on it once. The meaning stays simple. Ilkhom is inspiration.
How many people are named Ilkhom
1 in 177885 men in Poland is named Ilkhom. 120 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3070 among male names.