Dilan

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dilan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dilan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #500 in 2003, and it stood at #1,076 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#500highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#1365
1998	#1480
1999	#2189
2000	#1475
2001	#2023
2002	#1658
2003	#1383
2004	#1252
2005	#1589
2006	#2137
2007	#1502
2008	#3860
2009	#4564
2012	#5876
2013	#4050
2014	#4003
2015	#5730
2016	#5785
2017	#4763
2018	#5666
2021	#5581
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2018: #749 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #897 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1522 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2003–2018
Highest recorded position: #500 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2003–2018).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1076 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Dilan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,010 births with the name.

Dilan across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dilan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#588 (1996)	#588 (1996)	#1076 (2024)	29 of 29	1,010 (1996–2024)	56 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#1252 (2004)	#4709 (2023)	23 of 28	190 (1996–2023)	18 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#500 (2003)	#749 (2018)	3 of 16	10 (2003–2018)	4 (2017)

Dilan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dilan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	104	4 of 10	26
2000s	334	10 of 10	33
2010sbusiest	426	10 of 10	43
2020s	146	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 43 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dilan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Dilan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1076	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1272	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#901	34	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#907	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#921	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#686	49	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#897	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#888	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#858	37	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#807	39	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#684	48	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#625	56	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#718	44	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#687	45	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#596	54	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#818	34	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#799	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#722	36	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#726	34	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#678	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#761	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#656	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#686	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#710	25	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#603	29	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#669	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#725	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#588	28	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #500, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Digby · #812, 28y
Dila · #1939, 16y
Dilanas · #414, 14y
Dilara · #853, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Abdel · #500, 26y
Arif · #500, 29y
Damilola · #500, 26y
Devlin · #500, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abdel · #500, 26y
Arif · #500, 29y
Ayobami · #500, 18y
Ayoola · #500, 13y

Dilan was ranked #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dilan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dilan without appearing here.

Dilan moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2189 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1475 and #3247.
Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.
Cheryl Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5666 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Dilan

Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4050 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2705.
Karin Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2705.
Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4763 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.

Moved the opposite way to Dilan

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Dilan

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dilan went from #588 to #1076 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dilan

Dilan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dilan across 3 official records

Dilan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dilan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Dilan at a glance

Dilan across 3 official records

Dilan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dilan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Dilan

Dilan and the names beside it

Dilan moved ahead of

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