Şilan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Şilan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 24K
  • DKDenmark1 in 113K

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)

≈8,700 people, est.

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • Russian Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şilan 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.

Where Şilan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈8,700 est.≈1 in 9.4K#100Şilan29
SY Syria≈800 est.≈1 in 24K—Şilan6
AF Afghanistan≈88 est.≈1 in 419K—Şilan2
SE Sweden581 in 176K58Şilan9
CH Switzerland≈57 est.≈1 in 147K—Şilan7
DK Denmark521 in 113K52——
CY Cyprus≈9 est.≈1 in 142K—Şilan4

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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Şilan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Silan, Si-Lan, Şîlan

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, Türkiye

    Also written Silan, Şîlan, Silân, Sîlan

  • Chinese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Malaysia, Philippines, China

    Also written Silan, Si-Lan

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Силан, Сілан, Silan

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Türkiye

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Silan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Silan, Şîlan

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Türkiye, United States, Brazil

    Also written Silan, Sílan

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Şilan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Azerbaijani, synonym of itburnu (“dog rose”)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Şilan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names)2004—#100

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Şilan a male or female name?
Şilan is a female 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 Şilan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Şilan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şilan.
How common is the name Şilan?
In Sweden, the national register counted 58 people named Şilan, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Filan

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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, “Şilan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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