Chilian

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chilian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In English, recorded as A Chilean: someone from Chile.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 273K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.6M
  • ESSpain1 in 2.9M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

28 people

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname transferred from the place name

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Chilian is read(measured from records)

Chilian is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English43%

    A Chilean: someone from Chile.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish31%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Chilian in Spanish.

  • German11%

    Patronym zum Rufnamen Kilian < altir. killena ‚Kirchenmann‘; 66 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

    from Kilian

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • Romanian6.5%

    a surname transferred from the place name

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    CHILIÁN, -Ă, chilieni, -e, s. m. și f., adj. 1. S. m. și f. Persoană care face parte din populația de bază a statului Chile sau este originară de acolo. 2. Adj. Care aparține chilienilor (1) ori statului Chile, privitor la chilieni sau la statul Chile. [Pr.: -li-an - Var.: cilián, -ă s. m. și f., adj.]. ¶ CILIÁN, -Ă s. m. și f., adj. v. chilian.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chilian 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 Chilian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina281 in 1.6M28Chilian13
NO Norway201 in 273K20——
ES Spain171 in 2.9M17Chilian5
PL Poland51 in 7.7M5——
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1—2

28 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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 18 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Chilian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—28—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—20#42,311
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17#91,572
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#194,469
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1#18,570

Reference works 1

  • 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

Where does the name Chilian come from?
a surname transferred from the place name Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Chilian mean?
In English, A Chilean: someone from Chile.
In which country does Chilian have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 28 people named Chilian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chilian.
Where is Chilian most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chilian is densest in Norway — about 1 in 273 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chilian?
In Argentina, the national register counted 28 people named Chilian, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Chilian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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