Lilyan
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- France (INSEE, 2019): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/lailʝan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Lilyan is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 36K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 117K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 120Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
2,334 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lilyan is read
(measured from records)Lilyan is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English52%
A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lilyan in Spanish.
- French7.9%
From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- Portuguese7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lilyan in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Lilyan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,334 | 1 in 143K | 2.3K | Lilyan | 200 |
| SY Syria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Lilyan | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Lilyan | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 461 | 1 in 459K | 461 | — | 1 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Lilyan | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 95 | 1 in 36K | 95 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 87 | 1 in 117K | 87 | — | 3 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Lilyan | 21 |
2,334 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Lilyan Ireneb. 1892GBEnglish-born silent film actor
- Lilyan Tashmanb. 1896USAmerican actress (1896–1934)
- Lilian Cornfeldb. 1902CAnot in their usual nameCanadian-Israeli home economist, instructor, and cookbook author
- Leila Mouradb. 1918EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor and singer (1918–1995)
- Lilyan Chauvinb. 1925FRFrench-American actress (1925–2008)
- Lilyan Kestelootb. 1931BEBelgian researcher (1931-2018)
- Lilyan Alomab. 1947USAmerican photographer
- Lilyan Azaîsb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Lilyan Kaivb. 1974EEEstonian conductor (born 1974)
- Lilyan Strattonauthor
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)47 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,763 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 461 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 457 | #14,156 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 196 | #14,263 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 177 | #27,070 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 95 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 95 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 87 | #9,391 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 72 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1978 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Lilyan come from?
- From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Lilyan a male or female name?
- Lilyan is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; France (INSEE, 2019): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Lilyan mean?
- In English, A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.
- What are other forms of the name Lilyan?
- In the etymology graph, Lillian and Lilian are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lilyan?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /lailʝan/; in Portuguese /liljɐ̃/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Lilyan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Lilyan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lilyan.
- How common is the name Lilyan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,334 people named Lilyan in 2020, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lilyan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lilyanThe 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, “Lilyan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.