Bilan
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- bih-LAHN
- Origin
- Somali
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Bilan is a girls' name of Somali origin, meaning “beautiful, radiant”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Bilan mean?
Somali
“beautiful, radiant”
Is Bilan a girl's or a boy's name?
Bilan is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bilan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 15% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Bilan, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th.
2025 had the most girls named Bilan of any year since the records began in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Bilan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2020. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Bilan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
Names like Bilan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayra, Safa, Fiadh, Zainab, Ayla, Ayah, Raya, Ayzal, Hafsa, Eden, Irha, Rowan
More Somali names
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bilan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bilan, updated 20 October 2026.