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Dilan Dilan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dee-LAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dance / heart"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Kurdish)

A name that means "dance / heart".

Dilan is from the Kurdish (Kurmanji) Dîlan — dance, traditional Kurdish circle dance (also Persian dilān — hearts, plural of dil heart). Dilan is one of the Kurdish feminine names — central to traditional Kurdish Indigenous + Indo-Iranian heritage.

Dance / heart (Kurdish-Persian-Turkish).

The name in its native script.

Dîlan
Transliteration
Dîlan
Pronunciation
/ diːˈlɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dilan stands.

Dilan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dilans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dilan
Kurdish dance.

Names connected to Dilan.

The number behind Dilan.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dilan reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.