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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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 167,837 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 46.0% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,112Zolah11
- #9,112Zowie11
- #9,112Zuly11
- #9,736Waylen10
- #9,736Aala10
- #9,736Aalyiah10
- #9,736Aashritha10
- #10,473Aadhyasri9
- #10,473Aaima9
- #10,473Aakriti9
Tied with 736 names at #9,736; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 12,206 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 91.0% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,265Kaycen148
- #1,265Koen148
- #1,265Ollie148
- #1,271Waylen147
- #1,271Chevy147
- #1,271Cortez147
- #1,271Gilberto147
- #1,277Aksel146
- #1,277Beaux146
- #1,277Pierson146
Tied with 5 names at #1,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.