Kilian

Where Kilian comes from

The dictionaries list Kilian as a given name — a male given name from Irish, variant of Killian — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #4,724 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2023
    Peak, #1,031
    212 babies named Kilian — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish, variant of Killian.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Kilian hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.