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Ilyan

#5,473 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Ilyan has been given to 120 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #5,473 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Ilyan, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilyan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ilyan means

Ilyan is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 120 boys were recorded with the name Ilyan between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,473 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,093 in 2020 to #5,473 in 2025.

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.

How common is Ilyan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,473
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilyan 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ilyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilyan was born before 2021 — so the typical Ilyan is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
64.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
120
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 64.2% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Ilyan 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
+44
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+620
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (17)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,473
2025

Spellings of Ilyan

Ilyan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 39.5% against Ilyan'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.

Ilyan around the world

Where Ilyan 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
    2009–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #123
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #857
    in 2024

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

Ilyan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,473
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 620
Best rank ever
#5,473
2025
Peak year
2024
17 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
120
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Ilyan

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

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Sibling names for Ilyan

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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