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Killian /kil-lian/ [3 sylls.] as a boys' name is pronounced KIL-ee-an. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Killian is bright-headed. From the same root as Kelly. The name is popular in France. Kreatif forms: Kellian, Killianna, Kilna.
The second possible derivation of the name is from the Old French deien, dien, dean (a term ultimately from the Latin decanus, leader of ten men), introduced into England after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and borrowed into Middle English as deen.