Lian

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Lian: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #785, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#785highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#2738
1998	#2165
2000	#2167
2001	#3998
2002	#2868
2003	#2727
2004	#1952
2005	#3382
2007	#4294
2011	#4049
2012	#4171
2013	#3536
2014	#4684
2015	#4103
2016	#2547
2017	#4763
2018	#2674
2019	#4001
2020	#4535
2021	#1962
2022	#1948
2023	#2201
2024	#2771

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 girls in England and Wales in 24 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1282 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 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 recorded2024–2025
Highest recorded position: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2024–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Lian appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 165 births with the name.

Lian 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.

Lian'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 · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#1948 (2022)	#2771 (2024)	24 of 29	165 (1996–2024)	14 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#1282 (2024)	#1282 (2024)	24 of 28	151 (1997–2024)	21 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#785 (2024)	#785 (2024)	#829 (2025)	2 of 2	6 (2024–2025)	3 (2024)

Lian 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 Lian in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000s	35	8 of 10	4
2010s	55	9 of 10	6
2020sbusiest	55	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

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

Lian 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #785 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Lian'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	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1282	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1906	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2556	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	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 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #785, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 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.

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Liana · #166, 34y
Liane · #407, 19y

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.

Dre · #785, 29y
Edoardo · #785, 27y
Luciano · #785, 29y
Luigi · #785, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alp · #785, 20y
Dre · #785, 29y
Edoardo · #785, 27y
Luciano · #785, 29y

Lian was ranked #785 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2024. 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.

Lian 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 Lian without appearing here.

Lian moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1906 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1282 and #5119.
Denise Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4535 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Levi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4535 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4535 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Lian

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3998 and #1107.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2547 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2201.
Fiadh Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2547 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2502.

Moved the opposite way to Lian

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Lian

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lian went from #2859 to #1282 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 2025. Highest recorded position: #785 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lian

Lian at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lian across 3 official records

Lian by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lian appears in

Popularity data

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Lian across 3 official records

Lian by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lian appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lian

Lian and the names beside it

Lian moved ahead of

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