Ilia
Ilia is given to both girls and boys: 34 girls and 56 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,216 among girls’ names and #2,430 among boys’, #3,808 among all names counting both); 1,077 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Ilia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 8 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ilia mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Ilia is “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Илья́ (Ilʹjá), equivalent to Ilya”
/i.lja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ilia?
#4,216 among girls’ names, 2025
Ilia rose from #8,635 in 2015 to #4,216 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 21.2 per million.
90 babies in 2025, the peak
Ilia peaked in 2025, when 90 babies were given it (34 girls, #4,216 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 14 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,216 | 56 | #2,430 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,738 | 24 | #4,358 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,763 | 16 | #5,754 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,286 | 6 | #11,395 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,499 | 9 | #8,424 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,607 | 5 | #12,797 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,805 | 8 | #9,200 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,908 | 12 | #6,856 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,567 | 12 | #6,849 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,156 | 7 | #10,060 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,635 | 9 | #8,287 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,076 | 7 | #10,031 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,104 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,430 | 6 | #11,317 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,563 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,421 | 5 | #12,976 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,081 | 6 | #11,514 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,044 | 7 | #10,283 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,774 | 6 | #11,442 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,164 | 8 | #9,023 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,402 | 8 | #8,581 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,834 | 7 | #9,290 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,746 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,562 | 6 | #9,837 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,087 | 8 | #7,814 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,196 | 5 | #11,033 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,286 | 5 | #10,531 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,829 | 8 | #7,093 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,266 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,324 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,787 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,890 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,993 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,004 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,115 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,243 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,933 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,938 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,261 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,821 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,652 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,169 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,816 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,014 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,294 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,200 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,319 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,510 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,352 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,250 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,726 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,724 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,002 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,885 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,417 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,160 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,026 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,310 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,155 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,133 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,136 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,666 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,721 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,297 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,275 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,077 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,619 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,336 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,718 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,647 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,577 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,176 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ilia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,077 Americans recorded as Ilia, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ilia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilia, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,077 Americans ever recorded as Ilia. The median Ilia alive today is 20 years old; half are between 8 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,421 people named Ilia (1,227 women and girls, 1,194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 810 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ilia rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 181 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 272 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 393 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,263 babies since 1880, Ilia is the sixth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 1,181 babies (7.6%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ilia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ilia and names like it
- Compare Ilia and IlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIlia peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilia since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Ilia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ilia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ilia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.