Ilya Ilya Gender male Word/name East Slavic or alternatively Kurdish Meaning "My god is Yahu /Jah "[ 1] Related names Elijah , Eliahu , Elias , Ilias , Iliya , Ilija , Iliusha , Ilyusha , Ilyushenka , Iliushechka , patronymics Ilyich and Ilyinichna
Ilya , Iliya Ilia Ilja Ilija Illia (Russian : Илья́ , romanized : Ilʹja [ ɪlʲˈja] Russian : Илия́ , romanized : Ilija [ ɪlʲɪˈja] Ukrainian : Ілля́ , romanized : Illia [ iˈlʲːɑ] Belarusian : Ілья́ , romanized : Ilʹja [ ilʲˈja] East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu /Jah ."[ 1] 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 Ilyinichna ".
People with the name
Real people
Ilia Kulik (born 1977), Russian figure skaterIlia Malinin (born 2004), American Olympic figure skater, 2024 & 2025 world championIlya (Archbishop of Novgorod) , 12th-century Russian Orthodox cleric and saintIlya Borok (born 1993), Russian jiujitsu fighterIlya Bryzgalov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey goalieIlya Dzhirkvelov (1927–2006), author and KGB defectorIlya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassadorIlya Espino de Marotta , Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion ProjectIlya Frank (1908–1990), Russian physicistIlya Glazunov (1930–2017), Russian painterIlya Gringolts (born 1982), Russian violinistIlya Grubert (born 1954), Latvian violinistIlya Ilf (1897–1937), Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf Ilya Ilyin (born 1988), Kazakhstani Olympic weightlifterIlya I. Alekseyev (1772–1830), commander of the Russian Imperial ArmyIlya Ivashka (born 1994), Belarusian tennis playerIlya Kabakov (1933–2023), Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish originIlya Kaler (born 1963), Russian-American violinistIlya Kaminsky (born 1977), Ukrainian-American-Jewish poetIlya Kazakov (footballer) (born 1978), Russian footballer Ilya Kazakov (journalist) (born 1972), Russian football commentator, TV presenter and journalist Ilya Kharun (born 2005), Canadian swimmerIlya 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 NHLIlya Kuvshinov (born 1990), Russian animatorIlya Lagutenko (born 1968), lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy TrollIlya Lobanov (born 1996), Kazakhstani ice hockey playerIlya Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologistIlya Mizernykh (born 2007), Kazakhstani ski jumperIlya Oberyshyn (1921–2007), Ukrainian insurgentIlya Osipov (born 2005), nicknamed "m0NESY", Russian professional Counter-Strike 2 player for Team FalconsIlya Petrov (born 1995), Russian footballerIlya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929–2009), Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematicianIlya Prigogine (1917–2003), physical chemist and Nobel Prize-winning physicistIlya Prusikin (born 1985), Russian musician, singer, record producer, vlogger, video director and screenwriterIlya Remeslo (born 1983), Russian lawyer and bloggerIlya Repin (1844–1930), Russian painterIlya Salkind (born 1947), movie producerIlya Salmanzadeh (born 1986), Persian-Swedish music producerIlya Samsonov (born 1997), a Russian goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs, formerly Washington CapitalsIlya Serov (born 1986), Russian-American trumpeter and singerIlya Sorokin (born 1995), a Russian goaltender for the New York IslandersIlya Strebulaev , Russian-American financial economistIlya Sutskever , computer scientist, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAIIlya Tsipursky (1934–2022), Soviet judoka and sambistIlya Ulyanov (1831–1886), father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir LeninIlya Yashin (born 1983), Russian political figureIlya Zhitomirskiy (1989–2011), Russian-American founder of Diaspora
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 References
1 2 J. D. Douglas; F. F. Bruce; J. I. Packer; N. Hillyer; D. Guthrie; A.R. Millard; D. J. Wiseman, eds. (1982). New Bible Dictionary 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.
