Lian
Lian was given to 752 boys in 2025, #428 among boys’ names; 5,705 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,650 Americans named Lian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lian?
#428 among boys’ names, 2025
Lian rose from #1,145 in 2015 to #428 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.44 per 1,000.
794 babies in 2025, the peak
Lian peaked in 2025, when 794 babies were given it (752 boys, #428 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 595 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,620 | 752 | #428 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,436 | 595 | #515 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,195 | 493 | #582 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,864 | 393 | #687 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,238 | 345 | #740 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,526 | 293 | #793 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,119 | 273 | #829 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,711 | 209 | #994 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,227 | 194 | #1,039 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,446 | 196 | #1,025 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,893 | 165 | #1,145 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,849 | 119 | #1,420 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,386 | 110 | #1,488 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,830 | 79 | #1,854 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,747 | 71 | #1,956 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,929 | 57 | #2,278 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,633 | 43 | #2,826 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,670 | 26 | #3,995 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,038 | 30 | #3,563 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,353 | 23 | #4,170 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,018 | 13 | #6,079 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,871 | 12 | #6,368 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,175 | 14 | #5,431 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,553 | 14 | #5,287 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,561 | 12 | #5,881 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,361 | 8 | #7,892 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,061 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,265 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,526 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,238 | 5 | #9,926 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,114 | 7 | #7,470 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,905 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,870 | 6 | #8,259 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,501 | 7 | #7,114 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,098 | 5 | #9,055 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,180 | 5 | #8,950 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,173 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,757 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,421 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,155 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,978 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,930 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,218 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,767 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,802 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,742 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,150 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,018 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,346 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,959 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,159 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,197 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,075 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,796 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,626 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,705 Americans recorded as Lian, 20% are girls and 80% boys. In 2025 it went to 42 girls and 752 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lian, and how old are they?
5,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,705 Americans ever recorded as Lian. The median Lian alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 5,941 people named Lian (2,575 women and girls, 3,366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 211 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 758 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lian born?
The states with the most babies named Lian are Texas, California and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | #310 | 1.2× |
| California | 98 | #358 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 63 | #310 | 1.1× |
| New York | 45 | #443 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 31 | #287 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 31 | #346 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 31 | #382 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #390 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 27 | #291 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 24 | #357 | 0.7× |
Where Lian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lian is most over-represented in Texas: since 1957 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,246 babies since 1880, Lian is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 794 of their 958 babies (83%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lian and names like it
- Compare Lian and LinnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLian peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lian since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.