Ilya

Russian variation of Elijah
"the Lord is my God"

Ilya Origin and Meaning

The name Ilya is a boy's name of Greek, Russian origin meaning "the Lord is my God".

A rare example of an a-ending boy's name that sounds masculine, Ilya has a large measure of creative Slavic charm. >p>Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character in Goncharov's novel "Oblomov." Unfortunately, he spends most of his life in his bathrobe and slippers.

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Famous People Named Ilya

  • Ilya Yefimovich Repin
    Russian realist painter
  • Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov
    Russian ice hockey player
  • Ilya Valeryevich Kovalchuk
    Russian ice hockey player
  • Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
    Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Ilya Romanovich Prigogine
    Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Ilya Yankelevich Gabay
    Russian civil rights activist
  • Ilya Perfilyev
    Russian explorer

Ilya in Pop Culture

  • Ilya Muromets
    Russian folk hero
  • Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev
    character in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull"
  • Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin
    character in Vladimir Obruchev's "Plutonia"
  • Ilya "Ilyusha" Snegiryov
    character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
  • Ilya Pasternak
    character in video game "Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation"
  • Ilya Kuryakin
    main character on TV's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
  • Ilya Tretiak
    character in 1997 movie "The Saint"
  • Ilya
    character in "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse
  • Ilya
    Julian's real name in visual novel The Arcana