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Tian

#7,141 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Tijan

Tian has been given to 532 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #7,141 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Tian, 2025

1 in 276,000

Tian over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tian over time

In 2025, Tian went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19742025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tian: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tijan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tian means

Tian is a variant of Tijan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tijan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 379 boys were recorded with the name Tian between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,201 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,579 in 2020 to #7,141 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,979 in 2015 to #7,141 in 2025.

In the United States, 153 girls were recorded with the name Tian between 1974 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1993; its best national rank was #8,970 in 1975.

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 Tian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,141
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tian 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tian was born before 2013 — so the typical Tian is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
379
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2010s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Tian 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
−2,834
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−562
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+838
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2023 (26)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,201
2023

Spellings of Tian

Tian is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 20.1% against Tian'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.

Where Tian is used

Across 1910–2025, Tian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,365,888 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Tian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tian around the world

Where Tian 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
    1997–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #638
    in 2010
  • France
    2005–2025
    #4,771
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1993–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,141
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 562
Best rank ever
#4,201
2023
Peak year
2023
26 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
379
Count in 2025
12

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,970
1975
Peak year
1993
9 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
153
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tian

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

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Sibling names for Tian

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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