Wayland

Where Wayland comes from

Wayland hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1838
    Wayland Hoyt born
    American Baptist Minister
  2. 1884
    First appearance
    #971 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1912
    Peak, #765
    32 babies named Wayland — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1923
    Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet born
    British Baron
  5. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,203.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet · British Baron, 1923–2009
  • Wayland Hoyt · American Baptist Minister, 1838–1910
  • Wayland Trask, Jr. · American actor, 1887–1918
  • Wayland Flowers · American puppeteer, 1939–1988
  • Wayland Rudd · American actor, 1900–1952

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.