Meaning not yet researched.
Dyson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,620 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,620 in 2012; #5,085 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dyson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,085 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,620.
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Dyson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,620 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 96 (2012).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Dyson, making it the 5,085th most common boys’ name of the year, down 980 places from #4,105 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 26 boys named Dyson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,620, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 96. For comparison, it was #1,985 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dyson in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 1,588 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 664 babies named Dyson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 358 US boys were named Dyson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Deason, Dycen and Dison 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deason (30), Dycen (25), Dison (11), Dezon (10), Deison (8), Deyson (6).
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 Dyson 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 | — | — | 19 | #5,085 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,105 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,519 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,795 |
| 2021 | — | — | 32 | #3,521 |
| 2020 | — | — | 42 | #2,854 |
| 2019 | — | — | 41 | #2,957 |
| 2018 | — | — | 40 | #2,962 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,607 |
| 2016 | — | — | 64 | #2,148 |
| 2015 | — | — | 73 | #1,985 |
| 2014 | — | — | 80 | #1,846 |
| 2013 | — | — | 76 | #1,869 |
| 2012 | — | — | 96 | #1,620 |
| 2011 | — | — | 70 | #1,973 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,773 | 71 | #1,962 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,015 |
| 2008 | — | — | 62 | #2,167 |
| 2007 | — | — | 86 | #1,731 |
| 2006 | — | — | 73 | #1,862 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,821 |
| 2004 | — | — | 69 | #1,807 |
| 2003 | — | — | 59 | #1,967 |
| 2002 | — | — | 52 | #2,073 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,704 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,443 |
| 1999 | — | — | 34 | #2,575 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,120 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,047 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,409 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,113 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,152 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,922 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,776 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,543 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,251 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,010 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,324 |
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).