In 2025, 15 US boys were named Xylon, making it the 6,125th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,247 places from #4,878 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 21 boys named Xylon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,337, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 25. For comparison, it was #13,953 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xylon in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 246 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 95 babies named Xylon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US boys were named Xylon; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.