Ilan
From Hebrew, where it carries the plain word for tree: no metaphor, just roots, trunk, branches. In Poland it stays rare, a name most people would need to ask about.
Ilan Pronunciation
Ilan is pronounced EE-lahn (/ˈilan/).
What Ilan means
Where Ilan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ilan comes from Hebrew, where the word means tree. It belongs to the world of Jewish naming, and it stays close to that literal sense. A tree is not a metaphor here. It is the plain object: roots, trunk, branches.
The name spread in modern Israel, where words drawn from the natural world became given names for a new generation. Ilan sits among them. On the Hebrew calendar there is Tu BiShvat, the New Year of the Trees, a day for planting saplings and for reckoning the age of an orchard. A boy called Ilan bears the same word that names the subject of that holiday.
In Poland the name is rare, and it has no Polish name-day. A child named Ilan would turn up on a class register with a first name most classmates could not gloss, though the meaning behind it runs short and clear.
That plainness is unusual. Many names bury their sense under centuries of sound change. Ilan does not. The meaning stays on the surface, one short word: drzewo.
How many people are named Ilan
1 in 86773 men in Poland is named Ilan. 248 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1951 among male names.
Ilan's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1605 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Ilan is most popular
Ilan is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 boys born+510%
Ilan as a middle name
Ilan is a first name for 248 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2225th, between Hiếu (17) and Ilias (17).
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#2223 Hiacenty17
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#2224 Hiếu17
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#2225 Ilan17
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#2226 Ilias17
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#2227 Isa17