Ilian
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ilian is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 12K◐
- YTMayotte1 in 5.4K
- ALAlbania1 in 64K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.1K ●
- Sources
- 163 ●
- 1 in 12K ◐
across 15 countries
6.8K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
lat. Aelianus, > Aelius n. roman. 1. Ilian (Syn) ; - Al. act ; -a f. (17 A III 12) ;. Bernie, Ignafi, 'gnat', Isp : sl + Iliianu (P2) ; -ul, 1688 (Pas). 2. Liana, C. (Tg-Jiu) ; -1, Nicola (AO XXI 163). 3. Mod. Elian. Illana v. Ille I 3 si Ulan 1. Ili/a, -ea v. Ilie I 2. Ilias/a, -A v. Ilie I 11. Hint v. Ilie III 4. Ille/a, -el v. Ilie I 4, 9.
Sources 2
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 5,730 | 6.7K rec. | 1 in 12K | 5.7K | Ilian | 163 |
| ES Spain | — | 328△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 152K | 328 | Ilian | 3 |
| US United States | — | 299△ | 20 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 299 | Ilian | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 210 | — | 1 in 1M | 210 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 141 | — | 1 in 72K | 141 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 133 | 0 rec. | 1 in 130K | 133 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 117 | — | 1 in 327K | 117 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 64 | 57 rec. | — | — | Ilian | 10 |
| AL Albania | — | 48 | — | 1 in 64K | 48 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 39 | — | 1 in 86K | 39 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 21 | — | 1 in 265K | 60 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 20 | — | 1 in 293K | 20 | — | — |
Roughly 5.7K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 12K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French30K60%
- Spanish6.2K12%
- Bulgarian4.9K10%
- Portuguese2.4K5%
- English2.1K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 30,172 | 60% |
| Spanish | 6,155 | 12% |
| Bulgarian | 4,860 | 10% |
| Portuguese | 2,442 | 5% |
| English | 2,127 | 4% |
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●
Ilian 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 Russian, "the sun."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, Of or relating to the ancient city of Ilium.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of ilia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, bowl or basin for washing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osx, to hasten, to hurry
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 23 |
| 2024 | 35 |
| 2025 | 57 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Iliyan Nedkovb. 1958BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian Olympic judoka
- Ilian Djevelekovb. 1966BGBulgarian film director
- Iliyan Kiryakovb. 1967BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilian Ilievb. 1968BGBulgarian footballer (born 1968)
- Ilian Stoyanovb. 1977BGBulgarian association football player
- Ilian Evtimovb. 1983BGBulgarian and French basketball player
- Iliyan Mitsanskib. 1985BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilian Bergalab. 1996FRFrench actor
- Iliyan Stefanovb. 1998BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilian Ilievb. 1999BGBulgarian footballer (born 1999)
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 55 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 · 378 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ilian?
- We estimate roughly 7.1 thousand people bear Ilian (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ilian have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.7 thousand people bear Ilian in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ilian.
- How common is Ilian compared with other names?
- In Mayotte, Ilian is the 698th most common given name of 1,095 given names recorded there.
- Is Ilian a male or female name?
- Ilian is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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, “Ilian” — the 698th most common given name in Mayotte. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.