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Ailan

#9,747 in 2025Boys' name

Oak tree, through Elon

Ailan has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #9,747 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Ailan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ailan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ailan: meaning, origin, and history

Oak tree, through Elon

Hebrew

What Ailan means

Ailan belongs to the name family reached through Ailan → Elon. Its meaning is “oak tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ailan is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 86 boys were recorded with the name Ailan between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #6,529 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ailan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,747
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ailan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ailan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ailans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ailan was born before 2019 — so the typical Ailan is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
86
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Ailan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+176
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 2023 (13)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,529
2023

Spellings of Ailan

Ailan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 16.2% against Ailan's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ailan around the world

Where Ailan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    2006–2025
    #1,684
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ailan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,747
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,529
2023
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Ailan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HylanAtlanEylanNalanZolanCylanKahlanKhilanWhelanAshlanKaplanXylanFaelanSolanReylanRilanZealanLolanAilanyAiltonEilanNeylanBaylanNorlan

Sibling names for Ailan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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