In the US and other countries like Portugal, Mexico and France, Dilan is mainly given to boys. Originally, Dilan is a feminine Turkish name that means ‘love’.
Dilan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Dilan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Dilan ranks 841. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Dilan. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dilan.
In the US and other countries like Portugal, Mexico and France, Dilan is mainly given to boys. Originally, Dilan is a feminine Turkish name that means ‘love’.
Some may use... Dilan as a variant of the name Dylan, although these names have no connection.
Dilan is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Dilan cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #765 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Dilan, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Dilan seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dilan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
You may not know anyone named Dilan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to men and boys named Dilan. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Dilan living in one state or another. If your name is Dilan and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Texas, which has the most people named Dilan relative to the population, you still have to ask 17,236 men and boys their names before you hear Dilan as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Dilan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Dilan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dilan, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dilan
Dilan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
I
L
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
I
L
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dilan sounds like this:
