Waylan
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 59 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,288since 1923
Waylan over time
Rank among boys' names. Waylan has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | — | #2,572 | 51 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,674 | 49 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,315 | 60 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,408 | 58 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,918 | 42 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,310 | 59 |
| 2018 | — | #2,617 | 48 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,755 | 44 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,726 | 44 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,722 | 44 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,929 | 39 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,405 | 31 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,954 | 39 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,114 | 36 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,278 | 23 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,057 | 38 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,511 | 30 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,941 | 23 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,426 | 18 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,131 | 14 | |
| 2001 | — | #8,339 | 7 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,573 | 16 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,735 | 10 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
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| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1934 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Waylan! It came in at #3,822, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1928, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Waylan
- 102 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,572)
- 45 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,572)
- 150 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #2,572)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2019 at #2,310 (59 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,510 boys born in 2023 were named Waylan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,492 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,310 in 2019, was only 1 in 30,410 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.4% of all boys named Waylan (430) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 18 | #3,559 (1929) | #3,749 |
| 1930s | 32 | #2,563 (1934) | #3,199 |
| 1940s | 20 | #2,671 (1940) | #3,037 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,522 |
| 1960s | 42 | #2,685 (1960) | #3,496 |
| 1970s | 85 | #2,910 (1977) | #3,609 |
| 1980s | 45 | #3,601 (1981) | #5,305 |
| 1990s | 86 | #4,246 (1997) | #6,417 |
| 2000s | 211 | #3,057 (2008) | #4,586 |
| 2010s | 430 | #2,310 (2019) | #2,816 |
| 2020s | 308 | #2,315 (2023) | #2,584 |
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.
Waylan in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 142,637 of them was named Waylan, which outranked 49.7% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,095Yale12
- #3,095Yohance12
- #3,095Zaid12
- #3,264Waylan11
- #3,264Aeron11
- #3,264Akio11
- #3,264Albaro11
- #3,471Abdurrahim10
- #3,471Adnan10
- #3,471Akili10
Tied with 206 names at #3,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.