Meaning not yet researched.
Waylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,336 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,336 in 2019; #2,599 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Waylan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,599 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,336.
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Waylan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,336 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 60 (2023).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Waylan, making it the 2,599th most common boys’ name of the year, up 112 places from #2,711 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 49 boys named Waylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,336, reached in 2019. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,762 in 2015 and #3,669 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waylan in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 6 babies. In all, 1,299 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 436 babies named Waylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 503 US boys were named Waylan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Waylan ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #991 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Waylon (55,338 babies since 1880) and Waylen (2,615 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Waylan 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #991 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,343 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,266 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,599 |
| 2024 | — | — | 49 | #2,711 |
| 2023 | — | — | 60 | #2,342 |
| 2022 | — | — | 58 | #2,437 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,970 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,381 | 48 | #2,653 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,442 | 59 | #2,336 |
| 2018 | — | — | 48 | #2,633 |
| 2017 | — | — | 44 | #2,796 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,776 |
| 2015 | — | — | 44 | #2,762 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,983 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,492 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #3,000 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,162 |
| 2010 | — | — | 46 | #2,678 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,421 |
| 2008 | — | — | 38 | #3,101 |
| 2007 | — | — | 30 | #3,587 |
| 2006 | — | — | 24 | #4,095 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,056 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,785 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,604 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,384 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #9,197 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,776 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,851 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,294 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,443 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #7,108 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,386 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,739 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #10,110 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,641 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,599 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,798 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,453 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,103 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,954 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,363 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,848 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,127 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,393 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,541 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #3,034 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,468 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,625 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #5,076 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,616 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,136 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,275 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #5,021 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,900 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,961 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,522 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #4,035 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,863 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,235 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,669 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,304 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,885 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,860 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,949 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,999 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,538 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,738 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,582 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,943 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,333 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,222 |
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).