Question: is ilya male or female?
Answer: Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilija, or Ilia (Cyrillic:Илья) 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.