Gílian

given name · Latin script

Gílian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 608 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 48K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 50K
  • CLChile≈1 in 180K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

608 people, 2022

Record sources
98 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gilian in BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom, NL Netherlands and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Gílian counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gílian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil6081 in 348K628Gilian51
CM Cameroon≈480 est.≈1 in 61K—Gilian2
NL Netherlands3631 in 48K338Gilian23
ZA South Africa≈250 est.≈1 in 259K—Gilian7
GB United Kingdom≈180 est.≈1 in 390K—Gilian64
CL Chile≈110 est.≈1 in 180K1——
BE Belgium≈99 est.≈1 in 119K22Gilian14
GY Guyana151 in 50K15Gilian1

608 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gílian under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people named Gílian?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 608 people named Gílian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilian. After it come Cameroon, Netherlands, South Africa and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Gílian most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gílian is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gílian?
In Brazil, the national register counted 608 people named Gílian in 2022, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gílian” — ranked 6395th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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