Nalan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- NAY-lan
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Nalan is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
Where does Nalan come from?
Modern: probably a respelling of Nolan; Nalan is also a Turkish girls' name from Persian
Is Nalan a girl's or a boy's name?
Nalan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nalan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Nalan, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.
2025 had fewer boys named Nalan than any year since 2015.
Half of all the boys named Nalan in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nalan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,027 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
Names like Nalan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Finnegan, Callan, Declan, Ronan, Rayden, Brecken, Kyaire, Braylen, Cassian, Raiden, Kylan
Names related to Nalan
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nalan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nalan, updated 20 October 2026.