Ilya
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Russian-language or alternatively Kurdish |
| Meaning | "My god is He" (Hebrew meaning) or "great or glorious" (Kurdish meaning) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Elijah, Ilija, Ilya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilyusha, Ilyushenka, Ilyich, Ilyinichna, Ali or Ilia |
Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilija, or Ilia (Cyrillic: Илья or Илия) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah), meaning "My god is He". It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative (Elia) of the Greek Elias (Ηλίας). It is pronounced with stress on the second syllable. The diminutive form is Ilyusha or Ilyushenka. The Russian patronymic for a son of Ilya is "Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna".
Famous namesakes
Real people
- Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancer
- Ilja Bereznickas, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturist
- Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey goalie for the Anaheim Ducks
- Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
- Ilya Grubert, violinist
- Ilya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf'
- Ilya Ilin, Kazakh olympic weightlifter
- Ilya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
- Ilya Kaler, violinist
- Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey winger for SKA Saint Petersburg
- Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
- Ilya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
- Elia Abu Madi, Lebanese-American poet
- Ilya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
- Ilya Petrov (born 1995), Russian footballer
- Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematician
- Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painter
- Ilya Salkind, movie producer
- Ilya Salmanzadeh, Persian-Swedish music producer
- Ilja Szrajbman, Polish swimmer
- Ilya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
- Ilya Zhitomirskiy American/Russian founder of Diaspora
- Ilja Hurník Czech composer, pianist and essayist
- Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classic scholar
Mythical/Biblical figures
- Ilya Muromets, Russian folk hero
- Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCE, known in Russian as Ilya
- 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"),[1][2]
Fictional characters
- Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
- Illya Kuryakin, a main character in the TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Ilya Tretiak, a character in the 1997 film The Saint
- Ilya in the book Letters from Rifka
- Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
- Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's Plutonia
- Ilya (Ilyusha) Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
- Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in Fate series by Type-Moon
Places
- Ilya, Belarus, village near Minsk
See also
- Elia (disambiguation)
- Ilja
- Ilija (given name)
- Ilias (disambiguation)
- Ilyin
- Ilyinka
- Ilyinsky (disambiguation)
- Ilyino
- Illyasviel
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