Dilan

What Dilan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Dilan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Dilan?

US: Rising: up from #904 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #807 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 414 boys got the name (#662 that year). First in the US records in 1980.

How common

• About 1 in 5,528 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,823 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in KY (0.39 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.35 per 1,000 boys), NC (0.35 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Dilan is #805 in the US and #1226 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Dilan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Dylan6,208 US · 717 E&W
• Dillon253 US · 39 E&W
• Tylan187 US · 4 E&W
• Daylan51 US
• Dillan28 US · 7 E&W
• Talan34 US
• Deylan21 US
• Delon17 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Dilan

Boys

• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Koa#269Hawaiian, meaning “warrior, courage; koa tree”^*
• Jaxson#156Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1991, with 13 babies
• Bodhi#265Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 5 babies
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025

For a sister

• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Rowan#249“little red one”^*
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Oakley#156“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Selah#216“to hang”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Dilan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.