Meaning not yet researched.
Lian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 752 in 2025. Its best rank was #428 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 95% of babies named Lian in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#428 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 752 boys in 2025. Peak: #428 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 752 (2025).
In 2025, 752 US boys were named Lian, making it the 428th most common boys’ name of the year, up 87 places from #515 in 2024. That is 157 more than the 595 boys named Lian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #428, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 752. For comparison, it was #1,145 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Lian, making it the 3,621st most common girls’ name of the year, up 817 places from #4,438 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 32 girls named Lian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,227, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 50, in 2021. For comparison, it was #3,894 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lian in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 5,705 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,102 babies named Lian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,743 US boys were named Lian; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 752. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,271 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lian ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #121 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Liam (359,085 babies since 1880), Liana (20,666 babies since 1880), Lyan (747 babies since 1880) and Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lihan 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lihan (25).
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 Lian 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 9 | #121 | — |
| New Jersey | 31 | #287 | — |
| Arizona | 27 | #291 | #511 |
| Texas | 122 | #310 | #712 |
| Florida | 63 | #310 | #1,011 |
| Illinois | 31 | #346 | #1,147 |
| Nevada | 9 | #348 | — |
| Tennessee | 24 | #357 | — |
| California | 98 | #358 | #857 |
| Colorado | 17 | #378 | — |
| Georgia | 31 | #382 | #1,174 |
| Virginia | 21 | #385 | — |
| North Carolina | 29 | #390 | — |
| Maryland | 13 | #402 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #428 | — |
| New York | 39 | #443 | #1,041 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #448 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #455 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #499 | — |
| Washington | 14 | #521 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #533 | — |
| Alabama | 9 | #551 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #554 | — |
| Kentucky | 8 | #556 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #563 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #572 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #584 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #649 | #860 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #692 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #734 | #910 |
| Ohio | 12 | #735 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #765 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #808 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,621 | 752 | #428 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,438 | 595 | #515 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,198 | 493 | #582 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,866 | 393 | #687 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,238 | 345 | #740 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,526 | 293 | #793 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,120 | 273 | #829 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,712 | 209 | #994 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,227 | 194 | #1,039 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,446 | 196 | #1,025 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,894 | 165 | #1,145 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,851 | 119 | #1,420 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,388 | 110 | #1,488 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,831 | 79 | #1,855 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,750 | 71 | #1,957 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,930 | 57 | #2,279 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,634 | 43 | #2,827 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,673 | 26 | #3,998 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,040 | 30 | #3,565 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,355 | 23 | #4,174 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,023 | 13 | #6,085 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,875 | 12 | #6,374 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,180 | 14 | #5,438 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,559 | 14 | #5,294 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,568 | 12 | #5,888 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,368 | 8 | #7,900 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,067 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,269 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,243 | 5 | #9,933 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,119 | 7 | #7,477 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,911 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,876 | 6 | #8,265 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,507 | 7 | #7,121 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,104 | 5 | #9,062 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,185 | 5 | #8,959 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,179 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,762 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,426 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,159 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,981 | — | — |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,934 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,222 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,769 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,804 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,743 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,153 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,020 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,348 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,961 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,160 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,198 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,076 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,798 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,628 | — | — |
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).