Meaning not yet researched.
Dilan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 309 in 2025. Its best rank was #662 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #662 in 2024; #805 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dilan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#805 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #662.
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Dilan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 309 boys in 2025. Peak: #662 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 414 (2024).
In 2025, 309 US boys were named Dilan, making it the 805th most common boys’ name of the year, down 143 places from #662 in 2024. That is 105 fewer than the 414 boys named Dilan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #662, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 414. For comparison, it was #904 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dilan in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 5 babies. In all, 6,138 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,237 babies named Dilan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,725 US boys were named Dilan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 414. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,528 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dilan ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #535 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dylan (434,951 babies since 1880), Dillon (66,270 babies since 1880), Dillan (7,387 babies since 1880) and Dylon (4,517 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deilyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Kurdish language and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deilyn (50).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dilan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 8 | #535 | — |
| North Carolina | 18 | #543 | #781 |
| Texas | 57 | #562 | #701 |
| Maryland | 8 | #589 | #504 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #611 | #632 |
| Alabama | 7 | #638 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #648 | — |
| Florida | 25 | #653 | #752 |
| California | 42 | #658 | #686 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #693 | #649 |
| Illinois | 11 | #767 | #1,007 |
| Georgia | 10 | #866 | #1,126 |
| Colorado | 5 | #882 | #603 |
| Arizona | 5 | #952 | #685 |
| New York | 12 | #1,007 | #866 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,022 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,143 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 309 | #805 |
| 2024 | — | — | 414 | #662 |
| 2023 | — | — | 344 | #759 |
| 2022 | — | — | 303 | #818 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,874 | 265 | #873 |
| 2020 | — | — | 272 | #839 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,804 | 218 | #979 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,273 | 168 | #1,144 |
| 2017 | — | — | 232 | #918 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,104 | 200 | #1,014 |
| 2015 | — | — | 240 | #904 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,087 | 270 | #837 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,263 | 236 | #883 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,537 | 186 | #1,039 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,746 | 178 | #1,058 |
| 2010 | — | — | 257 | #832 |
| 2009 | — | — | 239 | #881 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,944 | 161 | #1,133 |
| 2007 | — | — | 147 | #1,198 |
| 2006 | — | — | 152 | #1,131 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,004 | 133 | #1,198 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,931 | 122 | #1,237 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,701 | 138 | #1,113 |
| 2002 | — | — | 89 | #1,444 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,019 | 82 | #1,486 |
| 2000 | — | — | 92 | #1,372 |
| 1999 | — | — | 80 | #1,449 |
| 1998 | — | — | 89 | #1,341 |
| 1997 | — | — | 61 | #1,650 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,268 | 55 | #1,712 |
| 1995 | — | — | 53 | #1,688 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,567 |
| 1993 | — | — | 59 | #1,545 |
| 1992 | — | — | 59 | #1,513 |
| 1991 | — | — | 36 | #2,059 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,763 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,630 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,658 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,813 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,504 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).