Vaylen is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Valen, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vaylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #6,112 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Vaylen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,112 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Vaylen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #6,112 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 15 (2025).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Vaylen, making it the 6,112th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,610 places from #7,722 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 11 boys named Vaylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6,112, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 15. For comparison, it was #7,462 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Vaylen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #17,431, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5, in 2024. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vaylen in 13 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 5 babies. In all, 124 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 74 babies named Vaylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 81 US boys were named Vaylen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Valen (1,880 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Vaylen 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.
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).