How Many People Are Named Dillan?

7,239

people named Dillan are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 47,214 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,387 babies named Dillan in Social Security records from 1975 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,983

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,158

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Peak Year

1992

341 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: DIL-ən
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of DYLAN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Dillan in English. Counting Dillan and these spellings together, about 497,780 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
5.4%
Male
94.6%

Of the babies given the name Dillan, 5.4% were girls and 94.6% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Dillan rose from 0% in the 1980s to 19.3% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Dillan alive today is about 22 years old, and 78% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 29 in 2025.

Under 30 5,613
77.5%
30 to 59 1,626
22.5%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Dillan first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1992, to 341 babies. In 2025, 37 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Dillan has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #553, in 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,870.

Boys
Rank in 2025#3,870
Best rank#553 (1992)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#735 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Dillan alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Dillan were born in California than in any other state: about 670 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dillan was given 2.7 times as often in Louisiana, 2.3 times in Utah and 1.9 times in Alabama.

California 670
Texas 660
Florida 390
Georgia 258
New York 225
Pennsylvania 223
Ohio 214
Louisiana 203
Michigan 190
Tennessee 176
Illinois 155
Alabama 132
Utah 129
North Carolina 128
Missouri 125
Indiana 122
Arizona 106
Oklahoma 85
Virginia 79
Washington 71
Maryland 58
Mississippi 54
Kentucky 52
Minnesota 52
Oregon 49
Wisconsin 47
Iowa 45
Arkansas 42
Colorado 32
Massachusetts 32
Nevada 27
New Jersey 21
Idaho 21
South Carolina 18
Nebraska 12
Maine 6
Connecticut 5
North Dakota 5

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