Waylynn is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Waylon, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Waylynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,384 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,384 in 2019; #6,097 in 2025. About 50% of babies named Waylynn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,097 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #3,384.
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Waylynn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,384 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 47 (2019).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Waylynn, making it the 6,097th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,718 places from #4,379 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 33 girls named Waylynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,384, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 47. For comparison, it was #14,404 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Waylynn, making it the 5,030th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,419 places from #6,449 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 14 boys named Waylynn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,292, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 25. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waylynn in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2011 with 5 babies. In all, 502 US babies have been given the name, 72% of them girls and 28% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 303 babies named Waylynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 341 US girls were named Waylynn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls 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.
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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 Waylynn 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).