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Dilan

#805 in 2025Boys' name

Love

Dilan has been given to 6,138 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #805 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 414 recorded.

Babies named Dilan, 2025

1 in 10,700

Dilan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dilan: meaning, origin, and history

Love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dilan means

Dilan means “love”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dilan is used in English, Northern Kurdish and Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Northern Kurdish, Dilan is pronounced /dɪˈlɑːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,034 boys were recorded with the name Dilan between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 414 in 2024; its best national rank was #662 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #839 in 2020 to #805 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #904 in 2015 to #805 in 2025.

In the United States, 104 girls were recorded with the name Dilan between 1996 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2003; its best national rank was #7,696 in 2003.

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 Dilan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,700
309 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,530
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#805
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,438 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dilan 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,438 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dilan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dilans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dilan was born before 2014 — so the typical Dilan is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,034
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (2,185).

Is Dilan 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
−143
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+34
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+99
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.6%
Peak was 2024 (414)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#662
2024

Spellings of Dilan

Dilan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 18.1% against Dilan's 0.26%.

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.

Where Dilan is used

Across 2016–2025, Dilan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,226 boys, against 1 in 6,183 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

331 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,226
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 3,846
  3. 3Texas1 in 4,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 4,167
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 4,167
  6. 6Florida1 in 4,545
  7. 7New York1 in 4,545
  8. 8Virginia1 in 4,545

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Dilan is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 62% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Dilan around the world

Where Dilan 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
    1996–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2003–2018
    #749
    in 2018
  • France
    1983–2025
    #3,727
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dilan

People whose public names include Dilan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dilan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#805
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 34
Best rank ever
#662
2024
Peak year
2024
414 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,034
Count in 2025
309

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,696
2003
Peak year
2003
14 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dilan

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

DillanTalanTylanArlanKylanDillionRaylanJaylanMilanKelanAslanKeelanElanKellanDyllanCallanIlanMylanKalanAzlanDaylanLachlanOlanDeklan

Names with a curve like Dilan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dilan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BridgerBriarWestinJerichoKylenYaelAviZaidJamirZyonBeckBoden

Sibling names for Dilan

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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