Dyson
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 96 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,583since 1979
Dyson over time
Rank among boys' names. Dyson has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,072 | 26 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,470 | 17 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,774 | 29 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,497 | 32 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,846 | 42 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,943 | 41 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,943 | 40 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,597 | 48 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,145 | 64 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,983 | 73 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,844 | 80 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,866 | 76 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,617 | 96 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,968 | 70 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,957 | 71 |
| 2009 | — | #2,010 | 69 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,161 | 62 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,728 | 86 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,856 | 73 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,813 | 71 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,804 | 69 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,962 | 59 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,068 | 52 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,681 | 35 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,425 | 39 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,560 | 34 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,052 | 15 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,094 | 15 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
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| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dyson! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dyson
- 973 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #5,045)
- 2,199 spots since 2020 (#2,846 → #5,045)
- 3,062 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #5,045)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2012 at #1,617 (96 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,760 boys born in 2012 were named Dyson (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.6% of all boys named Dyson (659) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 12 | #5,785 (1985) | #6,363 |
| 1990s | 127 | #2,560 (1999) | #5,371 |
| 2000s | 615 | #1,728 (2007) | #2,051 |
| 2010s | 659 | #1,617 (2012) | #2,186 |
| 2020s | 165 | #2,846 (2020) | #4,117 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dyson in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 24,011 of them was named Dyson, which outranked 86.9% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,828Sulaiman81
- #1,828Sylus81
- #1,828Willis81
- #1,844Dyson80
- #1,844Aurelio80
- #1,844Darrius80
- #1,844Eastyn80
- #1,857Arham79
- #1,857Breck79
- #1,857Devante79
Tied with 12 names at #1,844; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.