Illya
Illya was last recorded in 2024, when 13 babies were given it; 404 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Illya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Illya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,014, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
89 babies in 1966, the peak
Illya peaked in 1966, when 89 babies were given it (78 boys, #829 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,014 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,798 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,787 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,255 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,251 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,443 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,189 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,150 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,632 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,344 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #7,731 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,722 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,441 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,840 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,056 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,870 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,643 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,195 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,485 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,162 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 26 | #1,621 | 14.5 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,919 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 56 | #975 | 32.1 |
| 1966 | 78 | #829 | 43.7 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,304 | 18.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Illya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 404 Americans recorded as Illya, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Illya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Illya, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Illya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 51 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 647 people named Illya (78 women and girls, 569 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 352 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,085 babies since 1880, Illya is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 none of their 101 babies recorded by SSA was a Illya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Illya and names like it
- Compare Illya and IlyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sIllya peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Illya since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Illya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Illya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with IMost given first.