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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Waylen is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Dakota#247 · 1 in 741
- Kentucky#297 · 1 in 1,198
- Tennessee#432 · 1 in 2,015
- Oklahoma#478 · 1 in 1,951
- Indiana#480 · 1 in 2,293
Best ever in a state: #202 in New Hampshire, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #247 | 5 | 1 in 741 |
| Kentucky | #297 | 17 | 1 in 1,198 |
| Tennessee | #432 | 18 | 1 in 2,015 |
| Oklahoma | #478 | 9 | 1 in 1,951 |
| Indiana | #480 | 14 | 1 in 2,293 |
| Alabama | #482 | 10 | 1 in 2,186 |
| Ohio | #499 | 20 | 1 in 2,635 |
| Mississippi | #520 | 5 | 1 in 2,198 |
| North Carolina | #542 | 18 | 1 in 2,842 |
| Oregon | #542 | 6 | 1 in 2,479 |
| Arkansas | #561 | 5 | 1 in 2,506 |
| Iowa | #567 | 5 | 1 in 2,752 |
| Pennsylvania | #589 | 15 | 1 in 3,483 |
| Washington | #610 | 11 | 1 in 2,956 |
| Missouri | #631 | 8 | 1 in 3,429 |
| Michigan | #669 | 11 | 1 in 3,634 |
| Louisiana | #678 | 6 | 1 in 3,280 |
| Georgia | #687 | 14 | 1 in 3,651 |
| Minnesota | #731 | 6 | 1 in 4,018 |
| Massachusetts | #755 | 5 | 1 in 5,405 |
| Wisconsin | #756 | 5 | 1 in 4,701 |
| Florida | #878 | 16 | 1 in 5,977 |
| Illinois | #1,038 | 7 | 1 in 7,171 |
| Virginia | #1,052 | 5 | 1 in 7,549 |
| Texas | #1,226 | 17 | 1 in 10,517 |
| California | #1,526 | 11 | 1 in 16,387 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 231,456 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 31.4% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,122Zurianna8
- #11,122Zuriella8
- #11,122Zylynn8
- #12,161Waylen7
- #12,161Aadhvika7
- #12,161Aadhyasri7
- #12,161Aagya7
- #13,477Aada6
- #13,477Aadiya6
- #13,477Aalaysia6
Tied with 1,315 names at #12,161; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 5,452 of them was named Waylen, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).