Ilias
Ilias was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,316 among boys’ names; 1,019 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Ilias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ilias mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Ilias is “a male given name from Arabic إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās)”
Borrowed from Arabic إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās), from Ancient Greek Ἠλίας (Ēlías), from Hebrew אֵלִיָּהוּ (eliyáhu), whence also Elia, Elias.
/ˈi.liˌɑs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ilias?
#2,316 among boys’ names, 2025
Ilias rose from #3,730 in 2015 to #2,316 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 35.1 per million.
66 babies in 2024, the peak
Ilias peaked in 2024, when 66 boys were given it, #2,196 among boys’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,316 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,196 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,659 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,128 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,262 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 39 | #2,996 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,638 | 27.3 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,365 | 30.8 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,771 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,318 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,730 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 34 | #3,254 | 17.7 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,818 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,192 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,387 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,842 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,670 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,903 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,836 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,253 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,189 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,566 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,555 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,711 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,764 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,109 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,135 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,736 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,806 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,698 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,100 | 4.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,762 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,638 | 3.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,812 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilias has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilias, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,019 Americans ever recorded as Ilias. The median Ilias alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,208 people named Ilias (12 women and girls, 1,196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 763 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 432 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 541 |
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).
Where are babies named Ilias born?
The states with the most babies named Ilias are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,902 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,172 | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | #1,862 | 0.7× |
Where Ilias is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ilias is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ilias with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,513 babies since 1880, Ilias is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 271 babies (22%), again the second most given.
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 Ilias
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 Ilias and names like it
- Compare Ilias and IlyasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIlias peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilias since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ilias: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ilias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ilias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.