Given name & surname
Ilyes
Ilyes is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Original Arabicإلياس
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ilyes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 18 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 7 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 boys is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 103 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ilyes’s family of names
In French usage, Ilyes has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form إلياس.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ilyes
- Ilyes HousniMoroccan and French footballerborn 2005
- Ilyes ZianiBelgian footballerborn 2003
- Ilyes HamacheFrench footballerborn 2003
- Elyes KaramosliTunisian volleyball playerborn 1989
- Ilyes ChaïbiFrench footballerborn 1996
- Ilyes SidhoumAlgerian footballerborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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