Illya
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #11,122 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to boys 90.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1966 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 35 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 365since 1965
Illya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
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| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
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| 2014 | — | #12,108 | 5 | |
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| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
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| 2007 | — | #10,921 | 6 | |
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| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,606 | 14 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,125 | 18 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,605 | 26 | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #1,894 | 18 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #968 | 56 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | #827 | 78 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | #1,294 | 35 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Illya! It came in at #1,294, and was given to 35 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Illya
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 467 spots in 1966 (#1,294 → #827)
- Biggest drop: 926 spots in 1968 (#968 → #1,894)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 1966 at #827 (78 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1966–1967
- Highest: 1 in 22,865 boys born in 1966 were named Illya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 58.4% of all boys named Illya (213) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 213 | #827 (1966) | #1,318 |
| 1970s | 85 | #2,125 (1970) | #3,684 |
| 1980s | 16 | #6,315 (1984) | #6,842 |
| 1990s | 17 | #7,770 (1994) | #7,893 |
| 2000s | 13 | #9,864 (2009) | #10,393 |
| 2010s | 11 | #10,766 (2010) | #11,437 |
| 2020s | 10 | #12,022 (2020) | #12,186 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Illya in 1965
Top girls' names in 1965
Top boys' names in 1965
More about 1965
girls
1,765,164 girls got a published name in 1965; 1 in 353,033 of them was named Illya, which outranked 13.2% of the 7,535 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 996 names at #6,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,860,143 boys got a published name in 1965; 1 in 53,147 of them was named Illya, which outranked 70.8% of the 4,425 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,271Theadore36
- #1,271Torrence36
- #1,271Wendall36
- #1,294Illya35
- #1,294Abner35
- #1,294Allison35
- #1,294Christ35
- #1,318Cheryl34
- #1,318Cleve34
- #1,318Eleazar34
Tied with 23 names at #1,294; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.