Meaning not yet researched.
Dylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6,208 in 2025. Its best rank was #19 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #19 in 2004; #41 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Dylan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#41 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #19.
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Dylan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6,208 boys in 2025. Peak: #19 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 16,497 (2001).
In 2025, 6,208 US boys were named Dylan, making it the 41st most common boys’ name of the year, down 13 places from #28 in 2024. That is 1,279 fewer than the 7,487 boys named Dylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #19, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 16,497, in 2001. For comparison, it was #27 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dylan in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 434,951 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 144,295 babies named Dylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 76,338 US boys were named Dylan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 9,720. In 2025 that was about 1 in 275 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dylan ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #11 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 37 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Dillan (7,387 babies since 1880), Dilan (6,138 babies since 1880), Dylon (4,517 babies since 1880) and Dyllan (3,802 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delane, Delon and Dylen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delane (1,878), Delon (1,416), Dylen (1,060), Dylin (780), Dilyn (540), Dilon (424), Delan (180), Dyllen (180), Deylan (164), Deylin (149), Dyllin (146), Dylynn (145), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dylan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 657 | #11 | #18 |
| Maryland | 150 | #13 | #13 |
| New Jersey | 255 | #19 | #8 |
| New York | 471 | #20 | #13 |
| California | 871 | #28 | #19 |
| Texas | 833 | #28 | #21 |
| Georgia | 222 | #29 | #31 |
| Delaware | 22 | #30 | #31 |
| Nevada | 59 | #35 | #24 |
| Tennessee | 159 | #35 | #66 |
| Nebraska | 47 | #36 | #41 |
| District of Columbia | 18 | #40 | #13 |
| Massachusetts | 140 | #40 | #25 |
| Virginia | 155 | #44 | #28 |
| Connecticut | 65 | #45 | #17 |
| New Mexico | 31 | #46 | #20 |
| Alabama | 81 | #47 | #61 |
| Louisiana | 72 | #48 | #40 |
| Kentucky | 83 | #49 | #88 |
| Mississippi | 43 | #51 | #71 |
| Arizona | 123 | #52 | #34 |
| Illinois | 181 | #53 | #29 |
| Colorado | 100 | #56 | #40 |
| Washington | 110 | #62 | #53 |
| Rhode Island | 16 | #62 | #18 |
| North Carolina | 177 | #64 | #40 |
| Pennsylvania | 171 | #66 | #36 |
| Indiana | 101 | #69 | #63 |
| Iowa | 45 | #75 | #68 |
| Wisconsin | 73 | #75 | #64 |
| New Hampshire | 18 | #86 | #43 |
| South Carolina | 54 | #92 | #50 |
| Kansas | 38 | #95 | #71 |
| Michigan | 97 | #97 | #65 |
| Ohio | 128 | #97 | #75 |
| Arkansas | 34 | #98 | #83 |
| Minnesota | 65 | #98 | #61 |
| Oklahoma | 44 | #104 | #72 |
| Oregon | 34 | #114 | #61 |
| Utah | 41 | #126 | #63 |
| Missouri | 56 | #127 | #82 |
| Idaho | 20 | #131 | #48 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #140 | #82 |
| Maine | 8 | #160 | #70 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #184 | #40 |
| Montana | 6 | #207 | #99 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #232 | #94 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 338 | #808 | 6,208 | #41 |
| 2024 | 409 | #694 | 7,487 | #28 |
| 2023 | 451 | #651 | 7,074 | #34 |
| 2022 | 525 | #572 | 6,745 | #42 |
| 2021 | 536 | #567 | 6,767 | #44 |
| 2020 | 616 | #497 | 6,857 | #42 |
| 2019 | 729 | #436 | 7,555 | #39 |
| 2018 | 776 | #398 | 8,610 | #31 |
| 2017 | 894 | #354 | 9,315 | #29 |
| 2016 | 842 | #394 | 9,720 | #32 |
| 2015 | 815 | #399 | 10,298 | #27 |
| 2014 | 828 | #394 | 10,416 | #29 |
| 2013 | 613 | #490 | 10,127 | #29 |
| 2012 | 595 | #512 | 10,001 | #31 |
| 2011 | 598 | #496 | 9,792 | #33 |
| 2010 | 508 | #576 | 10,520 | #31 |
| 2009 | 546 | #559 | 11,373 | #30 |
| 2008 | 581 | #527 | 11,710 | #31 |
| 2007 | 420 | #693 | 12,811 | #29 |
| 2006 | 380 | #735 | 13,171 | #26 |
| 2005 | 468 | #608 | 13,782 | #24 |
| 2004 | 620 | #475 | 14,852 | #19 |
| 2003 | 572 | #502 | 15,703 | #19 |
| 2002 | 256 | #883 | 14,821 | #23 |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,068 | 16,497 | #21 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,436 | 15,405 | #24 |
| 1999 | 129 | #1,372 | 15,981 | #23 |
| 1998 | 175 | #1,099 | 14,540 | #25 |
| 1997 | 183 | #1,043 | 12,968 | #30 |
| 1996 | 158 | #1,152 | 12,037 | #33 |
| 1995 | 174 | #1,040 | 12,091 | #34 |
| 1994 | 207 | #915 | 12,530 | #32 |
| 1993 | 257 | #792 | 12,686 | #33 |
| 1992 | 163 | #1,101 | 15,064 | #28 |
| 1991 | 116 | #1,386 | 9,763 | #46 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,850 | 4,414 | #83 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,032 | 2,853 | #115 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,101 | 2,158 | #137 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,676 | 1,997 | #141 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,744 | 1,833 | #149 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,648 | 1,331 | #188 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,766 | 971 | #231 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,717 | 777 | #266 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,039 | 700 | #290 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,766 | 729 | #283 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,573 | 822 | #265 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,851 | 639 | #305 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,123 | 480 | #351 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,045 | 530 | #338 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,696 | 399 | #386 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,671 | 454 | #366 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,456 | 384 | #395 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,792 | 277 | #474 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,534 | 302 | #454 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,652 | 257 | #509 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,504 | 314 | #457 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,157 | 228 | #514 |
| 1968 | — | — | 121 | #686 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,063 | 63 | #911 |
| 1966 | — | — | 62 | #928 |
| 1965 | — | — | 47 | #1,084 |
| 1964 | — | — | 38 | #1,266 |
| 1963 | — | — | 34 | #1,342 |
| 1962 | — | — | 19 | #1,867 |
| 1961 | — | — | 33 | #1,392 |
| 1960 | — | — | 39 | #1,257 |
| 1959 | — | — | 30 | #1,447 |
| 1958 | — | — | 22 | #1,697 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,679 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,336 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,240 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,962 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).