Wikipedia:
Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, or Ilia is the Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah), meaning "My god is He". 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".
Ilya is also a Kurdish name meaning great and glorious.
Places
Ilya, Belarus
Famous namesakes
Real people
Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancerIlja Bereznickas, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturistIlya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey goalie for the Philadelphia FlyersIlya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassadorIlya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden CalfIlya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish originIlya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey winger for the New Jersey DevilsIlia Kulik, Russian figure skaterElia Abu Madi, Lebanese-American poetIlya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologistIlya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicistIlya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painterIlya Salkind, movie producerIlja Szrajbman, Polish swimmerIlya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir LeninIlja Ylikangas, Finnish film director, screenwriterIlya Zhitomirskiy American/Russian founder of Diaspora Mythical/Biblical figures
Ilya Muromets, Russian folk heroElijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCElias, another name for the prophet Elias (St Ilya in Russian)Ali (Arabic, Persian ایلیا), cousin, son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Imam of shias. (There is a quote from Imam Ali "I'm called Elia among jews, Ilya among christians, Ali for my father, and Heydar for my mother"), Fictional characters
Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of LiberationIllya 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 SaintIlya in the book Letters from RifkaIlya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The SeagullIlya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's PlutoniaIlia, daughter of King Priam of Troy, in Mozart's opera Idomeneo
Music
Ilya (Bristol band), from BristolIlya (San Diego band)"Ilya", a song by Martina Topley-Bird from QuixoticIlya Kaler, violinistIlya Grubert, violinistIlya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy TrollIlya Petrov, Ceremonial Perfection band, bass guitarist
Related
Branch, in East African languages"There is" (il y a), in French"Irya" (Powerful, Energy, Glorious, Sun), in Sanskrit
