Iliya

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Iliya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Iliya: Recorded every year since 2012, its highest recorded position is #2,443, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
13years from first to last
#2443highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#4736
2016	#3609
2017	#3583
2018	#5666
2019	#5591
2021	#3961
2022	#5669
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 12 of the 13 years from 2012 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2012–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2012
First recorded at #3416 among boys in England and Wales in 2012 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2012–2024
Highest recorded position: #2443 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2012–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2443 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Iliya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2012, and has registered 65 births with the name.

Iliya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Iliya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3416 (2012)	#2443 (2024)	#2443 (2024)	12 of 13	65 (2012–2024)	9 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#4736 (2015)	#3583 (2017)	#5687 (2023)	8 of 9	33 (2015–2023)	6 (2016)

Iliya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2012 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2443 in England and Wales in 2024.

Iliya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2012 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,443, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ilie · #2488, 10y
Ilinca · #517, 14y
Iliyas · #2954, 13y
Illiana · #3117, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aaris · #2443, 10y
Adiel · #2443, 11y
Arkan · #2443, 10y
Beaumont · #2443, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Reuben-James · #2443, 10y
Yamen · #2443, 14y
Samrat · #2445, 10y
Adelynn · #2449, 11y

Iliya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Iliya without appearing here.

Iliya moved ahead of

Espen Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #4107 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Glenn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #4991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #4270.

Moved ahead of Iliya

Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.
Einar Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #4789 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4991 and #4107.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #3583 and #2706.
Jordan Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3609 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #3583 and #2925.

Moved the same way as Iliya

Garry Compare
Between 2012 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Iliya went from #3416 to #4991 and Garry from #3039 to #4991.
Matheo Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Iliya went from #4685 to #2443 and Matheo from #3822 to #1517.
Rune Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Iliya went from #4685 to #2443 and Rune from #4685 to #1460.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2012 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2443 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Iliya

Iliya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Iliya across 2 official records

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Iliya and the names beside it

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Iliya at a glance

Iliya across 2 official records

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What the record shows

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Iliya and the names beside it

Iliya moved ahead of

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