Lián
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lián is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads with the name Li, from Old Norse hlíð (“hillside”). * As a Chinese surname, from 連／连, 连, and 廉 (lián).
- BRBrazil1 in 41K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 56K
- ECEcuador1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
6,209 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lian in US United States, BR Brazil, PA Panama.
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(measured from records)
* As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads with the name Li, from Old Norse hlíð (“hillside”). * As a Chinese surname, from 連／连, 连, and 廉 (lián).
Sources 5
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lián 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | — | 6,209 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.2K | — | 16 |
| US United States | — | 5,941 | 1 in 56K | 8.2K | Lian | 144 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,168 | 1 in 41K | 5.2K | Lian | 69 |
| ES Spain | — | 632 | 1 in 79K | 632 | — | 42 |
| SE Sweden | — | 629 | 1 in 16K | 629 | — | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 411 | 1 in 5.1K | 441 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | — | 179 | 1 in 17K | 179 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 145 | 1 in 40K | 97 | — | — |
| PA Panama | #683 | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Lian | 15 |
6,209 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lián is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亷
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, liana
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Xu Lianb. 1787Qing dynasty politician (1787–1862)
- Wu Lien-tehb. 1879MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian physician (1879–1960)
- Dai Ailianb. 1916CNnot in their usual nameballerina (1916-2006)
- Chen Ailianb. 1939CNnot in their usual nameChinese dancer
- Peng Xiaolianb. 1953CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director (1953-2019)
- Ni Xialianb. 1963LUnot in their usual nameLuxembourgian table tennis player
- Li Baolianb. 1963CNnot in their usual nameChinese javelin thrower
- Pauline Chanb. 1973CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress (1973-2002)
- Wang LianCNChinese Shu Han state official (died c. 223)
- Gao LianTang dynasty person CBDB = 155199
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(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lián mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads with the name Li, from Old Norse hlíð (“hillside”). * As a Chinese surname, from 連／连, 连, and 廉 (lián). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Is Lián a male or female name?
- Lián 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.
- In which country does Lián have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Lián, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lián most common?
- Lián is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lián?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 6,209 people named Lián in 2024, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lián compared with other names?
- In Panama, Lián is the 683rd most common given name of 24,657 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/li%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lián” — the 683rd most common given name in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.