In 2025, 24 US boys were named Xylan, making it the 4,385th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,502 places from #5,887 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 16 boys named Xylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,385, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #10,588 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xylan in 17 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 7 babies. In all, 199 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 114 babies named Xylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 152 US boys were named Xylan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.