Ilyas

What Ilyas means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ilyas yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #182 vs #1,075 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ilyas?

US: Rising: up from #1767 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #373 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 200 boys got the name (#1075 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 8,540 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 985 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,274 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.65 per 1,000 boys), NJ (0.43 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ilyas is #1075 in the US and #182 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ilyas were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elyas156 US · 62 E&W
• Eliyas29 US · 27 E&W
• Aliyas20 US · 18 E&W
• Ilyaas11 US · 25 E&W
• Alyas18 US
• Alyus11 US
• Ilyes0 US · 6 E&W
• Illyas0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ilyas

Boys

• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Lane#250Editor’s note Up from #297 in 2015 to #250 in 2025 in the US
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*

For a sister

• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls
• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ilyas’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.