Illya

Where Illya comes from

Illya hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #1,294 among boys, 35 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Peak, #827
    78 babies named Illya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,894.
  4. 1988
    Illya Hawrylaw born
    Belarusian footballer
  5. 1990
    Illya Kalpachuk born
    Belarusian footballer
  6. 2024
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Illya Hawrylaw · Belarusian footballer, born 1988
  • Illya Kalpachuk · Belarusian footballer, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.