Waylyn is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Waylon, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Waylyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,287 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,287 in 2023; #4,381 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Waylyn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,381 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #3,287.
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Waylyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,287 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 37 (2023).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Waylyn, making it the 4,381st most common boys’ name of the year, down 597 places from #3,784 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 30 boys named Waylyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,287, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 37. For comparison, it was #12,017 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Waylyn, making it the 11,864th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,931 places from #7,933 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 14 girls named Waylyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,949, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 17. For comparison, it was #18,963 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waylyn in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 7 babies. In all, 373 US babies have been given the name, 31% of them girls and 69% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 228 babies named Waylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 215 US boys were named Waylyn; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 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 Waylyn 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 | 8 | #11,864 | 24 | #4,381 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,933 | 30 | #3,784 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,030 | 37 | #3,287 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,348 | 27 | #4,081 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,949 | 17 | #5,547 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,513 | 19 | #5,028 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,579 | 24 | #4,325 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,578 | 13 | #6,683 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,651 | 12 | #7,072 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,124 | 12 | #7,124 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,963 | 6 | #12,017 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #8,090 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #8,071 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #14,123 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #12,211 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,862 |
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).