Lian — #513 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lian

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,824 babies named Lian between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lian currently holds the #513 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 594 babies received it in a single year. Lian is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,084 additional births since 1957.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lian performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 2,116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lian shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 595 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lian in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lian in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,824 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.