Lian
#3,577 for girls in 2025, 42 births · #428 for boys in 2025, 752 births
Given to boys 80.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 752 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,579since 1984
Lian over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,577 | 42 | #428 | 752 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #512 | 595 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #582 | 493 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | #686 | 393 |
| 2021 | #3,215 | 50 | #740 | 345 |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 | #792 | 293 |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | #826 | 273 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | #992 | 209 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | #1,036 | 194 |
| 2016 | #3,411 | 46 | #1,022 | 196 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 | #1,141 | 165 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2013 | #3,367 | 47 | #1,483 | 110 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | #1,849 | 79 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | #1,947 | 71 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 | #2,262 | 57 |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 32 | #2,800 | 43 |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,653 | 18 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | — | |
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| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lian! It came in at #6,315, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Lian
- 84 spots since 2024 (#512 → #428)
- 364 spots since 2020 (#792 → #428)
- 713 spots since 2015 (#1,141 → #428)
- Biggest jump: 166 spots in 2019 (#992 → #826)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2025 at #428 (752 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,271 boys born in 2025 were named Lian (0.04%)
- 62.7% of all boys named Lian (2,871) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2005, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,315 (1984) | #6,315 |
| 1990s | 35 | #6,670 (1992) | #7,778 |
| 2000s | 195 | #2,800 (2009) | #4,984 |
| 2010s | 1,473 | #826 (2019) | #1,397 |
| 2020s | 2,871 | #428 (2025) | #623 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lian in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 64,183 of them was named Lian, which outranked 70.9% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,999Zanai26
- #4,999Zenith26
- #4,999Zhara26
- #5,126Lian25
- #5,126Aalia25
- #5,126Addeline25
- #5,126Adelie25
- #5,248Addelynn24
- #5,248Adison24
- #5,248Ahmari24
Tied with 121 names at #5,126; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 3,470 of them was named Lian, which outranked 95.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.