Given name & surname
Illia
“My God is Yahweh”
Illia is a masculine given name from Ukrainian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Illia is a romanization of Ілля. Ілля goes back to Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu), meaning “My God is Yahweh.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Illia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 0 boys · 17 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 435 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Illia’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Illia
- Illia ZabarnyiUkrainian association football player (born 2002)
- Illia KovtunUkrainian gymnastborn 2003
- Illia KyvaUkrainian politician (1977–2023)
- Illya MarchenkoUkrainian tennis playerborn 1987
- Illia NyzhnykUkrainian chess grandmasterborn 1996
- Illia YemetsUkrainian doctor, cardiac surgeon, doctor of medical sciences, professor, honored doctor of Ukraine, member of the European Association of Congenital Heart Surgery.born 1956
- Illya KovalenkoUkrainian footballerborn 1990
- Illya ChychkanUkrainian artistborn 1967
- Illia PonomarenkoUkrainian journalist (born 1992)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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