Waylen
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #848 for boys in 2025, 289 births
Given to boys 97.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 403 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,552since 1947
Waylen over time
Rank among boys' names. Waylen has never cracked the top 600 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 | — | #848 | 289 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #795 | 316 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #676 | 403 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #894 | 263 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #1,218 | 158 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,518 | 110 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,271 | 147 |
| 2018 | — | #1,792 | 85 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #1,768 | 87 |
| 2016 | — | #2,066 | 68 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,212 | 61 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,082 | 67 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,364 | 53 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,380 | 53 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,173 | 60 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,633 | 29 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,721 | 28 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,145 | 24 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,313 | 33 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,528 | 27 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,976 | 10 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,656 | 11 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
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| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Waylen! It came in at #3,733, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Waylen
- 53 spots since 2024 (#795 → #848)
- 670 spots since 2020 (#1,518 → #848)
- 1,364 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #848)
- Biggest jump: 324 spots in 2022 (#1,218 → #894)
- Biggest drop: 119 spots in 2024 (#676 → #795)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2023 at #676 (403 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,245 boys born in 2023 were named Waylen (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,910 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 60.3% of all boys named Waylen (1,539) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,733 (1947) | #3,733 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,942 |
| 1960s | 12 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,763 |
| 1970s | 32 | #4,935 (1976) | #5,332 |
| 1980s | 17 | #4,940 (1980) | #5,900 |
| 1990s | 40 | #5,656 (1999) | #6,779 |
| 2000s | 192 | #3,313 (2007) | #4,987 |
| 2010s | 710 | #1,271 (2019) | #2,174 |
| 2020s | 1,539 | #676 (2023) | #992 |
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.
Waylen in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 287,744 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 23.4% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,713Zyionna7
- #12,713Zyleah7
- #12,713Zynique7
- #14,124Waylen6
- #14,124Aabriella6
- #14,124Aaditri6
- #14,124Aafiya6
- #15,902Aadilynn5
- #15,902Aafiyah5
- #15,902Aaheli5
Tied with 1,777 names at #14,124; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 21,275 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 87.6% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,746Tom88
- #1,746Tyrese88
- #1,746Xaiden88
- #1,768Waylen87
- #1,768Adin87
- #1,768Davi87
- #1,768Eyad87
- #1,780Abdullahi86
- #1,780Amin86
- #1,780Armon86
Tied with 11 names at #1,768; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.