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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 200,573 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 36.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,312Zyanni9
- #10,312Zynecia9
- #10,312Zyva9
- #11,169Waylen8
- #11,169Aaditri8
- #11,169Aadriti8
- #11,169Aaila8
- #12,197Aalaysia7
- #12,197Aalina7
- #12,197Aamani7
Tied with 1,027 names at #11,169; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 4,245 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 95.2% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).