Meaning not yet researched.
Dylon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #642 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #642 in 1992; #7,322 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dylon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,322 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #642.
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Dylon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #642 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 258 (1992).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Dylon, making it the 7,322nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,209 places from #5,113 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 19 boys named Dylon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #642, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 258. For comparison, it was #2,693 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dylon in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 9 babies. In all, 4,517 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,985 babies named Dylon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 247 US boys were named Dylon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dylan (434,951 babies since 1880), Dillon (66,270 babies since 1880), Dilan (6,138 babies since 1880) and Dyllan (3,802 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delone are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delone (87).
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 Dylon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,322 |
| 2024 | — | — | 19 | #5,113 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,926 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,601 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,179 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,584 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,842 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,316 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,139 |
| 2016 | — | — | 45 | #2,697 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,693 |
| 2014 | — | — | 49 | #2,520 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,472 |
| 2012 | — | — | 62 | #2,162 |
| 2011 | — | — | 73 | #1,910 |
| 2010 | — | — | 100 | #1,577 |
| 2009 | — | — | 118 | #1,426 |
| 2008 | — | — | 111 | #1,479 |
| 2007 | — | — | 124 | #1,354 |
| 2006 | — | — | 171 | #1,049 |
| 2005 | — | — | 177 | #980 |
| 2004 | — | — | 214 | #832 |
| 2003 | — | — | 188 | #893 |
| 2002 | — | — | 177 | #910 |
| 2001 | — | — | 207 | #808 |
| 2000 | — | — | 225 | #751 |
| 1999 | — | — | 227 | #723 |
| 1998 | — | — | 234 | #713 |
| 1997 | — | — | 216 | #722 |
| 1996 | — | — | 177 | #811 |
| 1995 | — | — | 199 | #763 |
| 1994 | — | — | 217 | #709 |
| 1993 | — | — | 225 | #687 |
| 1992 | — | — | 258 | #642 |
| 1991 | — | — | 169 | #794 |
| 1990 | — | — | 63 | #1,412 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #2,003 |
| 1988 | — | — | 26 | #2,324 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,587 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,115 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,464 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,464 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,851 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,640 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,532 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,413 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,855 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,985 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,938 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,522 |
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).