Ilyas
Ilyas was given to 200 boys in 2025, #1,075 among boys’ names; 2,196 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Ilyas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilyas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ilyas mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Ilyas is “a transliteration of the Arabic male given name إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās)”
/i.ljas/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ilyas?
#1,075 among boys’ names, 2025
Ilyas rose from #1,773 in 2015 to #1,075 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.12 per 1,000.
200 babies in 2025, the peak
Ilyas peaked in 2025, when 200 boys were given it, #1,075 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 158 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 200 | #1,075 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,255 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,253 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,484 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,680 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,524 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,556 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,528 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 100 | #1,611 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,773 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 92 | #1,675 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 87 | #1,698 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 85 | #1,763 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 74 | #1,890 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 54 | #2,362 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,236 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,444 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,776 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,947 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,725 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,760 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,691 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,544 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,459 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,898 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,565 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,101 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,608 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,952 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilyas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilyas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilyas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilyas, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,196 Americans ever recorded as Ilyas. The median Ilyas alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,755 people named Ilyas (6 women and girls, 1,749 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,364 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,530 |
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 Ilyas born?
The states with the most babies named Ilyas are New York, Texas and New Jersey, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 32 | #508 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,049 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #455 | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 16 | #363 | 3.9× |
| California | 14 | #1,327 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 14 | #655 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,533 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 7 | #942 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #655 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,017 | 1.2× |
Where Ilyas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ilyas is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1976 it was given 3.9 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 Ilyas 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, Ilyas is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 200 of their 271 babies (74%), again the 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 Ilyas
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 Ilyas and names like it
- Compare Ilyas and IliasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIlyas peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilyas since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Ilyas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ilyas.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ilyas alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.