Dilan
From the Kurdish word dil, "heart", carried into use through Turkish. It stays rare in Poland: ranked around 3,400, given to only a handful of children in a good year, so most Poles have never met one.
Dilan Pronunciation
Dilan is pronounced DEE-lahn (/ˈdilan/).
What Dilan means
Where Dilan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dilan travels under a Turkish sky, though its root sits in Kurdish. The word "dil" means heart, and Dilan grew out of it. In Turkey the name is given to girls and boys alike, which suits a word about the heart rather than about gender.
The origin is filed simply as other, outside the Latin and Slavic families that supply most Polish names. That places Dilan among the borrowings that reached Poland through migration and popular culture rather than through the church calendar. The name has no fixed day in the Polish liturgical calendar, so a child called Dilan marks no set imieniny.
Read the register of a Polish school class and Dilan stands slightly apart from the Antonis and Zuzannas around it. The sound is short and open. It asks for no diminutive and has kept none. The meaning stays close to the surface, plain to anyone who knows the Kurdish word: serce, heart.
How many people are named Dilan
1 in 292414 men in Poland is named Dilan. 100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3447 among male names.
Dilan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Dilan as a middle name
Dilan is a first name for 100 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1763rd, between Derya (17) and Débora (17).
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#1761 Dayanna17
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#1762 Derya17
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#1763 Dilan17
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#1764 Débora17
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#1765 Dżamila17