Waylin is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Waylon, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Waylin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,625 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,625 in 2023; #3,652 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Waylin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,652 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #3,625.
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Waylin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,625 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 32 (2023).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Waylin, making it the 3,652nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 910 places from #4,562 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 23 boys named Waylin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,625, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #4,700 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Waylin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #8,950, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 12. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waylin in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 5 babies. In all, 453 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 207 babies named Waylin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 237 US boys were named Waylin; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Waylon (55,338 babies since 1880), Waylen (2,615 babies since 1880) and Waylan (1,299 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 Waylin 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 | — | — | 31 | #3,652 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,394 | 23 | #4,562 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,075 | 32 | #3,625 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,612 | 27 | #4,080 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,950 | 23 | #4,487 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,981 | 18 | #5,216 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,843 | 22 | #4,627 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,755 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,662 | 21 | #4,738 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,123 | 24 | #4,317 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,700 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,256 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,387 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,468 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,930 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,561 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #12,407 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,824 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #12,289 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,544 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,894 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,497 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,777 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,447 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,735 |
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).