# Tian (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tian/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 532 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 379 / 153 (29% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 391, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 9 | 9,747 |
| 1999 | 7 | 12,593 |
| 2000 | 5 | 17,418 |
| 2001 | 5 | 17,759 |
| 2002 | 7 | 13,496 |
| 2003 | 6 | 15,624 |
| 2004 | 7 | 14,072 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,962 |
| 2006 | 9 | 12,351 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13,835 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19,971 |
| 2010 | 6 | 16,819 |
| 2012 | 5 | 19,311 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,643 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17,919 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 6,220 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7,501 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,978 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,541 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,984 |
| 2016 | 12 | 7,102 |
| 2017 | 18 | 5,280 |
| 2018 | 18 | 5,296 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,784 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6,583 |
| 2021 | 13 | 6,639 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,418 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4,205 |
| 2024 | 25 | 4,310 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7,145 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2000 | 6 | 2,416 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2002 | 6 | 2,540 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2004 | 12 | 1,715 |
| 2005 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2,509 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2009 | 9 | 2,535 |
| 2010 | 11 | 2,235 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,600 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,548 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,329 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 14 | 1,798 |

## People named Tian

- Tian Yuan, Chinese singer
- Xie Tian, Chinese actor and film director (1914-2003)
- Perry Ng, English association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.