Dilan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dilan har persisk-turkisk bakgrund och används som namn till både kvinnor och män
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/diɫan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dilan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.9K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dilan har persisk-turkisk bakgrund och används som namn till både kvinnor och män. Det är bildat till det persiska ordet dil som betyder ’hjärta’. Även namnen Dila och Dilara har samma ursprung. En känd svensk namnbärare är skådespelerskan Dilan Gwyn (f. 1987).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dilan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #596 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Dilan | 82 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 16,352 | 1 in 1K | 16K | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 5,567 | 1 in 60K | 5.3K | Dilan | 59 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 263 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 68 | — | — |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Dilan | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,731 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.7K | — | — |
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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dilan 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 agt, road, path, trail
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Kurdish, a female given name, wedding, celebration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dgc, path, trail, way; to walk on a trail
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In lld, thank you, thanks!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ssf, rust
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)
- Dylan Thomasb. 1914GBnot in their usual nameWelsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
- Dylan Bakerb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Dylan McDermottb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Dylan Nealb. 1969CAnot in their usual nameCanadian/American actor (born 1969)
- Dylan Pennb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican model and actress
- Dylan O'Brienb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1991)
- Dylan Sprouseb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1992)
- Dylan Arnoldb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Dylan Minnetteb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and musician (born 1996)
- Jack Dylan Grazerb. 2003USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 83 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 16K | #140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.3K | #3,661 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.7K | #397 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 355 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 309 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 263 | #438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 238 | #3,661 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 68 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 34 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 34 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Dilan a male or female name?
- Dilan 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.
- How do you pronounce Dilan?
- A machine transcription gives /diɫan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Dilan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dilan har persisk-turkisk bakgrund och används som namn till både kvinnor och män.
- In which country does Dilan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Dilan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dilan.
- Where is Dilan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dilan is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dilan?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 16,352 people named Dilan in 2024, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Dilan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Dilan is the 596th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dilanThe 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, “Dilan” — the 596th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.