Lian

What Lian means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #428 vs #1,798 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lian?

US: Rising: up from #1141 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3373 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 752 boys got the name (#428 that year). First in the US records in 1984.

How common

• About 1 in 2,271 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,424 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 DE (3.05 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.83 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.8 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lian is #428 in the US and #1798 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 94.7% of US babies named Lian were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Leon2,583 US · 526 E&W
• Luan166 US · 70 E&W
• Lino57 US · 3 E&W
• Lion37 US · 3 E&W
• Lean16 US
• Luian8 US
• Luen0 US · 8 E&W
• Llion0 US · 6 E&W

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 Lian

Boys

• Lennox#289Editor’s note Used for both: 75% of US babies named Lennox in 2025 were boys
• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Thiago#50Portuguese, meaning “natal, relating to birth”^*
• Charlie#145Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025
• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*

For a sister

• Melody#79Editor’s note Up from #148 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records
• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*

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 Lian’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.