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Tilian

#7,142 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tilian has been given to 188 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #7,142 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Tilian, 2025

1 in 276,000

Tilian over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tilian: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tilian means

Tilian is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tilian is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 183 boys were recorded with the name Tilian between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,261 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,261 in 2020 to #7,142 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,942 in 2015 to #7,142 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Tilian between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #17,748 in 2019.

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 Tilian?

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
#7,142
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tilian 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 Tilian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tilians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tilian was born before 2020 — so the typical Tilian is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
65.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
183
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Choose a decade

2020s — 65.6% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Tilian 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
+1,773
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,881
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,800
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.3%
Peak was 2020 (35)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,261
2020

Spellings of Tilian

Tilian is not the most common spelling — Julian is, with 68.8% against Tilian's 0.05%.

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 Tilian is used

Across 1910–2025, Tilian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,490,386 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Tilian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tilian around the world

Where Tilian 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2002–2022
    #3,900
    in 2022

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.

Tilian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,142
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,881
Best rank ever
#3,261
2020
Peak year
2020
35 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
183
Count in 2025
12

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,748
2019
Peak year
2019
5 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tilian

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

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Sibling names for Tilian

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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