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Nylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,517 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,517 in 2024; #3,071 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nylan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,071 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,517.
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Nylan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,517 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 54 (2024).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Nylan, making it the 3,071st most common boys’ name of the year, down 554 places from #2,517 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 54 boys named Nylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,517, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 54. For comparison, it was #4,255 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Nylan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #9,955, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 11. For comparison, it was #12,711 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nylan in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 6 babies. In all, 684 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 291 babies named Nylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 331 US boys were named Nylan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 40 | #3,071 |
| 2024 | — | — | 54 | #2,517 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,139 | 37 | #3,270 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,262 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,036 | 33 | #3,472 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,995 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,282 | 32 | #3,544 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,508 | 30 | #3,679 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,382 | 27 | #3,952 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,551 | 27 | #3,956 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,711 | 24 | #4,255 |
| 2014 | — | — | 22 | #4,493 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,856 | 22 | #4,424 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,355 | 12 | #6,920 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,261 | 19 | #4,937 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,956 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,710 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,987 | 14 | #6,309 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,751 | 17 | #5,365 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,588 | 18 | #5,005 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,955 | 20 | #4,419 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,047 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,667 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,233 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,319 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,660 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,553 |
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).