Ilya

Ilya
Gender	male
Origin
Word/name	East Slavic or alternatively Kurdish
Meaning	"My god is Yahu/Jah" (Hebrew meaning) or "great", "glorious" (Kurdish meaning)
Other names
Related names	Elijah, Eliahu, Elias, Ilias, Iliya, Ilija, Iliusha, Ilyusha, Ilyushenka, Iliushechka, patronymics Ilyich and Ilyinichna

Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, Ilija, or Illia (Russian: Илья́, romanized: Ilʹja [ɪlʲˈja], or Russian: Илия́, romanized: Ilija [ɪlʲɪˈja]; Ukrainian: Ілля́, romanized: Illia [iˈlʲːɑ]; Belarusian: Ілья́, romanized: Ilʹja [ilʲˈja]) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/Jah."^[1] It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative (Ilía) of the Greek Elias (Ηλίας, Ilías). It is pronounced with stress on the second syllable. The diminutive form is Iliusha or Iliushen'ka. The Russian patronymic for a son of Ilya is "Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna".

People with the name

Real people

Ilia Kulik (born 1977), Russian figure skater, 1998 Olympic champion
Ilia Malinin (born 2004), American figure skater, 2024, 2025 & 2026 World champion
Ilya (Archbishop of Novgorod), 12th-century Russian Orthodox cleric and saint
Ilya Borok (born 1993), Russian jiujitsu fighter
Ilya Bryzgalov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey goalie
Ilya Dzhirkvelov (1927–2006), author and KGB defector
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
Ilya Espino de Marotta, Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion Project
Ilya Frank (1908–1990), Russian physicist
Ilya Glazunov (1930–2017), Russian painter
Ilya Gringolts (born 1982), Russian violinist
Ilya Grubert (born 1954), Latvian violinist
Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
Ilya Ilyin (born 1988), Kazakhstani Olympic weightlifter
Ilya I. Alekseyev (1772–1830), commander of the Russian Imperial Army
Ilya Ivashka (born 1994), Belarusian tennis player
Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
Ilya Kaler (born 1963), Russian-American violinist
Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Ukrainian-American-Jewish poet
Ilya Kazakov (footballer) (born 1978), Russian footballer
Ilya Kazakov (journalist) (born 1972), Russian football commentator, TV presenter and journalist
Ilya Kharun (born 2005), Canadian swimmer
Ilya Kovalchuk (born 1983), Russian ice hockey winger in the KHL, formerly for the Atlanta Thrashers, New Jersey Devils, L.A. Kings and Washington Capitals of the NHL
Ilya Kuvshinov (born 1990), Russian animator
Ilya Lagutenko (born 1968), lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
Ilya Lobanov (born 1996), Kazakhstani ice hockey player
Ilya Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
Ilya Mizernykh (born 2007), Kazakhstani ski jumper
Ilya Oberyshyn (1921–2007), Ukrainian insurgent
Ilya Osipov (born 2005), nicknamed "m0NESY", Russian professional Counter-Strike 2 player for Team Falcons
Ilya Petrov (born 1995), Russian footballer
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929–2009), Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematician
Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), physical chemist and Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Ilya Prusikin (born 1985), Russian musician, singer, record producer, vlogger, video director and screenwriter
Ilya Remeslo (born 1983), Russian lawyer and blogger
Ilya Repin (1844–1930), Russian painter
Ilya Salkind (born 1947), movie producer
Ilya Salmanzadeh (born 1986), Persian-Swedish music producer
Ilya Samsonov (born 1997), a Russian goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs, formerly Washington Capitals
Ilya Serov (born 1986), Russian-American trumpeter and singer
Ilya Sorokin (born 1995), a Russian goaltender for the New York Islanders
Ilya Strebulaev, Russian-American financial economist
Ilya Sutskever, computer scientist, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI
Ilya Tsipursky (1934–2022), Soviet judoka and sambist
Ilya Ulyanov (1831–1886), father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
Ilya Yashin (born 1983), Russian political figure
Ilya Zhitomirskiy (1989–2011), Russian-American founder of Diaspora

Religious figures

Ali or Eli (Arabic name), a cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Imam of shiahs. (There is a quote from Imam Ali "I am called Elya / Alya among Jews, Elia among Christians, Ali for my father, and Haydar for my mother".)^[2]^[3]
Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCE, known in Russian as Iliya the Prophet (Илия́ Проро́к)
Ilya Muromets, Orthodox monastic saint, Russian folk hero

Fictional characters

Illya Kuryakin, a main character in the TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in Fate series by Type-Moon
Ilya Rozanov, a character in the Game Changers novel series and its television adaptation Heated Rivalry
Ilya (Ilyusha) Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
Ilya in the book Letters from Rifka
Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's Plutonia
Ilya Tretiak, a character in the 1997 film The Saint
Ilya, a character in the book and film adaption Heaven Knows What

Music

Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas

References

^ ^a ^b J. D. Douglas; F. F. Bruce; J. I. Packer; N. Hillyer; D. Guthrie; A.R. Millard; D. J. Wiseman, eds. (1982). New Bible Dictionary (2nd ed.). Wheaton, IL, US: Tyndale House. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-8423-4667-2.
^ Tabarsi, Ehtejaj, Vol. 1, pp. 307–308.
^ Allameh Amini, Alghadir, Vol. 7, p. 78.

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[New-1] J. D. Douglas; F. F. Bruce; J. I. Packer; N. Hillyer; D. Guthrie; A.R. Millard; D. J. Wiseman, eds. (1982). New Bible Dictionary (2nd ed.). Wheaton, IL, US: Tyndale House. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-8423-4667-2.

[2] Tabarsi, Ehtejaj, Vol. 1, pp. 307–308.

[3] Allameh Amini, Alghadir, Vol. 7, p. 78.

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