Ilian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ilian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 64K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 64K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lat. Aelianus, > Aelius n. roman. 1. Ilian (Syn) ; - Al. act ; -a f. (17 A III 12) ;. Bernie, Ignafi, 'gnat', Isp : sl + Iliianu (P2) ; -ul, 1688 (Pas). 2. Liana, C. (Tg-Jiu) ; -1, Nicola (AO XXI 163). 3. Mod. Elian. Illana v. Ille I 3 si Ulan 1. Ili/a, -ea v. Ilie I 2. Ilias/a, -A v. Ilie I 11. Hint v. Ilie III 4. Ille/a, -el v. Ilie I 4, 9.
Sources 2
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 5.7K | Ilian | 172 |
| US United States | 512 | 1 in 650K | 299 | Ilian | 8 |
| ES Spain | 328 | 1 in 152K | 328 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 210 | 1 in 1M | 210 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Ilian | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 141 | 1 in 72K | 141 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 48 | 1 in 64K | 48 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 39 | 1 in 86K | 39 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Ilian 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 Russian, "the sun."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, Of or relating to the ancient city of Ilium.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of ilia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, bowl or basin for washing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osx, to hasten, to hurry
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)
- Iliyan Nedkovb. 1958BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian Olympic judoka
- Ilian Djevelekovb. 1966BGBulgarian film director
- Iliyan Kiryakovb. 1967BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilian Ilievb. 1968BGBulgarian footballer (born 1968)
- Ilian Stoyanovb. 1977BGBulgarian association football player
- Ilian Evtimovb. 1983BGBulgarian and French basketball player
- Iliyan Mitsanskib. 1985BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilian Bergalab. 1996FRFrench actor
- Iliyan Stefanovb. 1998BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Ilian Ilievb. 1999BGBulgarian footballer (born 1999)
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)
Attested in 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 5.7K | #703 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 328 | #6,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 299 | #20,240 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 250 | #3,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 213 | #20,240 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 210 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 204 | #24,941 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 141 | #6,754 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 123 | #24,540 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 87 | #24,540 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 75 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 57 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Ilian a male or female name?
- Ilian 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ilian?
- In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Alijah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ilian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Ilian in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilian.
- How common is the name Ilian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 512 people named Ilian in 2020, about 1 in 650 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ilian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilianThe 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, “Ilian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.