Gilian
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ʒiljɐn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Gilian is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 48K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 50K
- CLChile≈1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
608 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gilian counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 608 | 1 in 348K | 628 | Gilian | 51 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Gilian | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 363 | 1 in 48K | 338 | Gilian | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Gilian | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Gilian | 64 |
| CL Chile | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 119K | 22 | Gilian | 14 |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | Gilian | 1 |
608 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 628 | #12,395 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 608 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 564 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 472 | #6,395 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 462 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 457 | #11,685 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 338 | #2,097 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 287 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 224 | #5,106 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 218 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 175 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 162 | #16,208 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gilian?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ʒiljɐn/; in Spanish /xiljan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gilian a male or female name?
- Gilian is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Gilian have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 608 people named Gilian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilian.
- Where is Gilian most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gilian is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gilian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 608 people named Gilian in 2022, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gilian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilianThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gilian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.