Tilman

Boys' name

Person, man

Tilman has been given to 930 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1926, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Tilman, 2023

1 in 474,000

Tilman over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tilman: meaning, origin, and history

Person, man

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tilman means

Tilman means “person, man”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tilman is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tillmann.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 930 boys were recorded with the name Tilman between 1881 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1926; its best national rank was #774 in 1881.

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 Tilman?

Tilman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 328,234 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tilman 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tilman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tilmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tilman was born before 1936 — so the typical Tilman is around 89 today.

Median birth year: 1936; About 89 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 11.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 321; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Tilman 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: —; Not ranked then
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: 0%; Peak was 1926 (26)
Years since peak: 99; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #774; 1881

Spellings of Tilman

Tilman is not the most common spelling — Milan is, with 22.5% against Tilman's 1.1%.

Milan22.5%18,608
Truman19.3%15,947
Dillan8.4%6,994
Dilan7.3%6,034
Titan6.6%5,496
Talan4.8%3,982
Tylan4.7%3,908
Tillman4.5%3,732

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 Tilman is used

Across 1910–2025, Tilman was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 571,248 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 in 100,000
2Arkansas1 in —
3Texas1 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. Tilman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tilman around the world

Where Tilman 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.

Canada
2018–2018
#2,536
in 2018
South Australia
1955–1955
#392
in 1955

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tilman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #774; 1881
Peak year: 1926; 26 that year
First recorded: 1881
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 930
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tilman

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

Tillman Tilden Cayman Bowman Colman Harman Luqman Kalman Zalman Rahman Tilian Ferman Tilmon Tilghman Othman Whitman Chapman Tilton Ousman Nachman Uthman Salman Tilford Gilman

Sibling names for Tilman

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

For a sister

Berta Delma Allene Darline Concepcion Easter Leatrice Pearline

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Domenick Hosea Rollin Wilburn Wilford

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