Tilian
Tilian was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,142 among boys’ names; 188 Americans have been recorded with it since 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tilian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tilian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tilian is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tilian?
#7,142 among boys’ names, 2025
Tilian rose from #11,942 in 2015 to #7,142 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 7.0 per million.
35 babies in 2020, the peak
Tilian peaked in 2020, when 35 boys were given it, #3,261 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,142 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,915 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,888 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,994 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,901 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,261 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,462 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,303 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,624 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,613 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,942 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tilian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 188 Americans recorded as Tilian, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tilian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tilian, and how old are they?
An estimated 187 Americans named Tilian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 7. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,648 babies since 1880, Tilian is the third most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 293 babies (4.1%), again the third 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 Tilian
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 Tilian and names like it
- Compare Tilian and TylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTilian peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tilian since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Tilian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tilian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.