Ylan
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ylan has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2022, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% boys, 48% girls all-time.
Babies named Ylan, 2022
1 in 423,000
Ylan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ylan over time
In 2022, Ylan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Ylan?
Ylan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 423,000
- 8 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 218,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 293,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ylan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ylan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ylans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ylan was born before 2022 — so the typical Ylan is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 61.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 13
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (8).
Is Ylan 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 2022 (8)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Ylan
Ylan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 21.3% against Ylan'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.
Ylan around the world
Where Ylan 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.
- France1985–2025#776in 2025
- Canada2005–2019#2,769in 2019
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ylan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ylan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ylan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.