Dilan
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dilan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Dilan har persisk-turkisk bakgrund och används som namn till både kvinnor och män.
- TRTürkiye1 in 3.6K◐
- ECEcuador1 in 1K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈27K ●
- Sources
- 72 ●
- 1 in 1.0K ◐
across 12 countries
151K records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Meaning & origin●
Dilan har persisk-turkisk bakgrund och används som namn till både kvinnor och män. Det är bildat till det persiska ordet dil som betyder ’hjärta’. Även namnen Dila och Dilara har samma ursprung. En känd svensk namnbärare är skådespelerskan Dilan Gwyn (f. 1987).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #593 | 151,222 | 148K rec. | — | — | Dilan | 72 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 16,352△ | 18 rec. | 1 in 1K | 16K | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 5,329△ | 277 rec. | 1 in 62K | 5.3K | Dilan | 62 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,829 | — | 1 in 116K | 1.8K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,731 | — | 1 in 2.9K | 1.7K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 810△ | 160 rec. | 1 in 13K | 810 | Dilan | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 684△ | 37 rec. | 1 in 73K | 684 | Dilan | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 632 | 415 rec. | — | 360 | Dilan | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 395 | 211 rec. | — | — | Dilan | 43 |
| SY Syria | — | 376 | 388 rec. | — | — | Dilan | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 340 | 340 rec. | — | 3 | Dilan | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 220 | 207 rec. | — | 14 | Dilan | 22 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish153K43%
- Spanish112K32%
- English28K8%
- Portuguese16K4%
- French10K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 152,985 | 43% |
| Spanish | 112,280 | 32% |
| English | 27,545 | 8% |
| Portuguese | 15,648 | 4% |
| French | 10,388 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dilan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In agt, road, path, trail
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Kurdish, a female given name, wedding, celebration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dgc, path, trail, way; to walk on a trail
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In lld, thank you, thanks!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ssf, rust
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1966 | 1 |
| 1972 | 1 |
| 1973 | 1 |
| 1980 | 1 |
| 1984 | 1 |
| 1988 | 1 |
| 1989 | 1 |
| 1991 | 2 |
| 1993 | 2 |
| 1994 | 1 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 82 |
| 1999 | 83 |
| 2000 | 119 |
| 2001 | 178 |
| 2002 | 243 |
| 2003 | 279 |
| 2004 | 309 |
| 2005 | 330 |
| 2006 | 470 |
| 2007 | 589 |
| 2008 | 639 |
| 2009 | 984 |
| 2010 | 964 |
| 2011 | 965 |
| 2012 | 1,074 |
| 2013 | 1,204 |
| 2014 | 1,187 |
| 2015 | 1,052 |
| 2016 | 938 |
| 2017 | 871 |
| 2018 | 711 |
| 2019 | 735 |
| 2020 | 452 |
| 2021 | 527 |
| 2022 | 523 |
| 2023 | 454 |
| 2024 | 355 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 40 years between 1966–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dylan Thomasb. 1914GBnot in their usual nameWelsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
- Dylan Bakerb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Dylan McDermottb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Dylan Nealb. 1969CAnot in their usual nameCanadian/American actor (born 1969)
- Dylan Pennb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican model and actress
- Dylan O'Brienb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1991)
- Dylan Sprouseb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1992)
- Dylan Arnoldb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Dylan Minnetteb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and musician (born 1996)
- Jack Dylan Grazerb. 2003USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 82 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 16K | #140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.3K | #3,661 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,445 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.7K | #397 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2020 | 1.1K | #2,428 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 810 | #1,980 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 718 | #11,400 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 684 | #3,709 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 654 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 550 | #1,955 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 360 | #3,907 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 633 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dilan?
- We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Dilan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dilan have the most bearers?
- Dilan is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled dilan.
- Where is Dilan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dilan is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Dilan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Dilan is the 593rd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Dilan a male or female name?
- Dilan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Dilan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dilan har persisk-turkisk bakgrund och används som namn till både kvinnor och män.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dilan” — the 593rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.