Ilya

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ilya: Recorded since 1997, it reached #493 in 2006, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#493highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2019–2020

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#5591
2020	#4535

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2013: #711 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1796 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2004–2025
Highest recorded position: #493 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2006 (recorded 2004–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ilya appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 234 births with the name.

Ilya across 3 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.

Ilya'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	#2859 (1997)	#1506 (2019)	#2921 (2024)	26 of 28	234 (1997–2024)	16 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#506 (2004)	#493 (2006)	#829 (2025)	5 of 22	16 (2004–2025)	4 (2006)
England and Wales · Girls	#5591 (2019)	#4535 (2020)	#4535 (2020)	2 of 2	7 (2019–2020)	4 (2020)

Ilya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ilya in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000s	65	9 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	113	10 of 10	11
2020s	50	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ilya appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #493 in Republic of Ireland in 2006.

Ilya'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	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1692	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1923	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2079	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1796	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1911	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #493, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Ilona · #277, 61y
Ilsa · #1862, 27y
Ilyaas · #1143, 27y
Ilyana · #872, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Adriano · #493, 27y
Mubarak · #493, 29y
Pablo · #493, 29y
Praise · #493, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adriano · #493, 27y
Mubarak · #493, 29y
Pablo · #493, 29y
Praise · #493, 25y

Ilya was ranked #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2006. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ilya 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 Ilya without appearing here.

Ilya moved ahead of

Malin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4333 and #4333 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1511 and #4432.
Shannon Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4333 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1511 and #4432.
Willow Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4333 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1511 and #4432.
Kristoffer Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4333 and #4333 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1649 and #4527.

Moved ahead of Ilya

Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1892 and #2087 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #4333 and #2023.
Aksel Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1511 and #1902 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2335 and #1431.
Gunnar Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1692 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #1906.
Rune Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2076 and #2228 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2301 and #2125.

Moved the opposite way to Ilya

Brent Compare
Between 1997 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ilya went from #2859 to #1692 while Brent went from #725 to #3449.
Tor Compare
Between 1997 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ilya went from #2859 to #1692 while Tor went from #1578 to #3449.
Ole Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ilya went from #2901 to #1692 while Ole went from #2901 to #4789.
Shannon Compare
Between 1997 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Ilya went from #2859 to #1506 while Shannon went from #1761 to #4702.

Moved the same way as Ilya

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ilya went from #2005 to #2921 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #493 in Republic of Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ilya

Ilya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ilya across 3 official records

Ilya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ilya at a glance

Ilya across 3 official records

Ilya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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