Ilyas

Meaning: Yahweh is my God
Origin: Variant of Elijah (from Hebrew)

Boy's name · #1075 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Ilyas is climbing: on the charts since 1976, it reached #1075 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 200 boys given the name last year. Roughly 2,200 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#100 in Austria (2025) · #113 in Belgium (2025) · #132 in Sweden (2025) · #150 in Switzerland (2025) · #155 in France (2025) · #182 in England & Wales (2025) · #194 in Norway (2025) · #201 in Netherlands (2025) · #423 in Poland (2025) · #522 in Scotland (2025) · #736 in Ireland (2025) · #410 in Canada (2024).

Famous Ilyases

Ilyas Khoja — Khan of Moghulistan
Ilyas Zhansugurov — Kazakhstani poet (1894–1938)
İlyas Salman — Turkish actor and director (born 1949)
Ilyas Chaira — Moroccan footballer
Ilyas Afandiyev — Azerbaijani and Soviet writer (1914–1996)

What Ilyases become

Among 215 notable people named Ilyas:

Political leaders appear 1.39× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ilyas Ismayılov, Azerbaijani prosecutor and politician.

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