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Worldwide, Nilan (Nilan , นิลัน ) is quite a common epicene given name. The first name Nilan is habitual in Sri Lanka, where it is quite a rare primarily masculine, but scarcely girly name, Qatar, where it is quite a rare masculine name, and United Arab Emirates, where it is a rare boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. Much less frequently, Nilan is the last name as well as the forename.
Nilan is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Nilan Narandžić , the character from novel Vasa Rešpekt.