Silian
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/siljan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Silian is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 49Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 196K
- MDMoldova1 in 561K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Silian
- Spanish:/siljan/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ziljɐn/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Silian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Silian | 13 |
| HN Honduras | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Silian | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 26 | 1 in 196K | 26 | Silian | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 24 | 1 in 8.8M | 28 | Silian | 21 |
| US United States | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Silian | 16 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Silian | 3 |
| MD Moldova | 6 | 1 in 561K | 6 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Silian?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /siljan/; in Portuguese /ziljɐn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Silian a male or female name?
- Silian 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Silian?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Silian in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silian. After it come Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Silian?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 26 people named Silian, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silianThe 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, “Silian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.