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

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Peak · boys
#2,310
2019 · 59 births
Debut · boys
1923
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,288
since 1923

Waylan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Waylan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977peak #2,310, 2019boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#2,57251
2024—#2,67449
2023—#2,31560
2022—#2,40858
2021—#2,91842
2020#15,0885#2,61748
2019#13,7996#2,31059
2018—#2,61748
2017—#2,75544
2016—#2,72644
2015—#2,72244
2014—#2,92939
2013—#3,40531
2012—#2,95439
2011—#3,11436
2010—#2,63246
2009—#4,27823
2008—#3,05738
2007—#3,51130
2006—#4,00124
2005—#3,94123
2004—#4,60218
2003—#4,42618
2002—#5,13114
2001—#8,3397
2000—#4,57316
1999—#7,1398
1998—#5,84010
1997—#4,24615
1996—#6,4968
1995—#5,9289
1994—#6,9687
1993—#8,7005
1992—#5,23610
1991—#8,2365
1990—#5,3829
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1988—#7,2705
1987—#6,9515
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1984—#4,5528
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1982—#5,6196
1981—#3,60111
1980—#3,83810
1979—#4,0689
1978—#4,1578
1977—#2,91014
1976—#3,26411
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1974—#4,1907
1973—#4,5056
1972—#3,3449
1971—#2,97311
1970—#3,07110
1969—#4,4045
1968—#2,73510
1967—#3,5596
1966—#3,9485
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1963—#3,6466
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1951—#3,7145
1950—#3,3296
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1939—#3,4805
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1936—#3,1476
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First appearance
1923

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.

Where Waylan is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more boys named Waylan in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Waylan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 102 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,572)
  • 45 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,572)
  • 150 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #2,572)
Rise & fade · boys
96 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1923
  • Peaked 2019 at #2,310 (59 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,510
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 33.4% of all boys named Waylan (430) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s18#3,559 (1929)#3,749
1930s32#2,563 (1934)#3,199
1940s20#2,671 (1940)#3,037
1950s11#3,329 (1950)#3,522
1960s42#2,685 (1960)#3,496
1970s85#2,910 (1977)#3,609
1980s45#3,601 (1981)#5,305
1990s86#4,246 (1997)#6,417
2000s211#3,057 (2008)#4,586
2010s430#2,310 (2019)#2,816
2020s308#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 1977

boys
#2,910
14 births · 1 in 117,373 boys

Top boys' names in 1977

  1. #1Michael67,587
  2. #2Jason55,631
  3. #3Christopher46,721
  4. #4David40,515
  5. #5James40,040
  6. #6Robert34,214
  7. #7John34,195
  8. #8Brian32,492
  9. #9Matthew31,965
  10. #10Joseph26,483
  11. #2,910Waylan14
More about 1977

boys

1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 117,373 of them was named Waylan, which outranked 57.6% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Waylan
  1. #2,791Willaim15
  2. #2,791Willam15
  3. #2,791Yohance15
  4. #2,910Waylan14
  5. #2,910Akash14
  6. #2,910Akeem14
  7. #2,910Alika14
  8. #3,037Adrion13
  9. #3,037Agustine13
  10. #3,037Akim13

Tied with 126 names at #2,910; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,102Lavar#5,587 → #485
  2. ↑ 4,753Kinte#5,587 → #834
  3. ↑ 969Jedidiah#1,873 → #904
  4. ↑ 811Conor#1,748 → #937
  5. ↑ 704Amin#1,608 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 427Jerimy#963 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 322Demetrios#990 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 246Nakia#790 → #1,036
  4. ↓ 244Baron#977 → #1,221
  5. ↓ 235Hakim#878 → #1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977 →