Meaning, origin and history of the name Ilyas

Gender Masculine

Meaning & History

Arabic form of Elijah, also used in several other languages.

VariantIlyes (Arabic (Maghrebi))

Other Languages & CulturesElias (Amharic) İlyas (Bashkir) Ilia, Ilja, Illia, Ilya (Belarusian) Elijah, Eliah, Elias (Biblical) Elias, Eliou (Biblical Greek) 'Eliyyahu (Biblical Hebrew) Elias, Helias (Biblical Latin) Ilia, Ilija, Iliya, Ilian, Iliyan (Bulgarian) Ilija (Croatian) Eliáš, Ilja (Czech) Elias (Danish) Elias, Elian (Dutch) Elijah, Alijah, Eli, Elias (English) Ilja (Estonian) Eelis, Elias, Eljas (Finnish) Élie (French) Ilia (Georgian) Elias (German) Elias, Ilias (Greek) Elijah, Eliya, Eliyahu, Eli (Hebrew) Illés, Éliás (Hungarian) Elías (Icelandic) Elia (Italian) Iliyas (Kazakh) Iļja (Latvian) Ilja, Elijas (Lithuanian) Ilija, Ile (Macedonian) Elis (Medieval English) Elias (Norwegian) Eliasz (Polish) Elias (Portuguese) Ilie (Romanian) Ilia, Ilja, Ilya (Russian) Ilija (Serbian) Elías (Spanish) Elias, Elis, Lias (Swedish) İlyas (Tatar) İlyas (Turkish) Illia, Illya (Ukrainian)

Same Spellingİlyas

User SubmissionsÎlyas, Il'yas

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