girls:
46 births since 2013
#5670 (1st percentile)
boys:
176 births since 1995
#4410 (4th percentile)
overall:
222 births since 1995
#7517 (3rd percentile)
The name Iliya is the #7,517 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 222 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 2.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,410 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 176 births since 1995. For girls, it ranks #5,670 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 2013.
Iliya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (1995 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Iliya is available in 22 out of the 29 years between 1995 and 2023 (21 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Iliya has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Iliya were boys.
For boys, Iliya reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #872) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Iliya reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #942) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Iliya is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #942 (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iliya".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Iliya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Iliya is pronounced as ih-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-LEE-yuh, at 37.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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