Lyán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: SRCEI, 2021
Lyán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 140K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 202K
- USUnited States1 in 555K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
1,515 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Lyan in US United States, BR Brazil, PH Philippines 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.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lyán 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,515 | 1 in 140K | 1.5K | Lyan | 40 |
| EC Ecuador | 863 | 1 in 20K | 863 | — | 9 |
| US United States | 599 | 1 in 555K | 302 | Lyan | 109 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Lyan | 30 |
| CL Chile | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 107 | Lyan | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | 316 | 1 in 55K | 284 | Lyan | 23 |
| PA Panama | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Lyan | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | 73 | 1 in 46K | 73 | Lyan | 11 |
1,515 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ruan Lianb. 1475not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 29633
- Wu Lien-tehb. 1879MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian physician (1879–1960)
- Wang LianCNnot in their usual nameChinese Shu Han state official (died c. 223)
- Gao Liannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 155199
- Zhang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 225230
- Wang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 336678
- Lin Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321351
- Wang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 210426
- Huang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321833
- Chen Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 285329
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2017 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2016 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2014 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lyán a male or female name?
- Lyán 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.
- In which country does Lyán have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Lyán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lyan.
- Where is Lyán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lyán is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lyán?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,515 people named Lyán in 2022, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lyán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ly%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, “Lyán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.