Dylin
Dylin is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,536 among girls’ names and #9,134 among boys’, #13,750 among all names counting both); 780 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dylin?
#9,134 among boys’ names, 2025
Dylin fell from #6,421 in 2015 to #9,134 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 4.7 per million.
46 babies in 2003, the peak
Dylin peaked in 2003, when 46 babies were given it (37 boys, #2,684 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,536 | 8 | #9,134 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #10,176 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,201 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #10,981 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,678 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,285 | 7 | #9,959 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,616 | 10 | #7,726 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 8 | #9,070 | |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,664 | 13 | #6,421 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,236 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,565 | 13 | #6,342 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,772 | 26 | #3,928 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,456 | 16 | #5,488 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,616 | 26 | #3,923 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,898 | 23 | #4,321 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,866 | 29 | #3,666 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,902 | 27 | #3,811 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,669 | 34 | #3,171 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,021 | 28 | #3,467 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,857 | 33 | #3,034 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,683 | 37 | #2,684 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 24 | #3,583 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,033 | 29 | #3,080 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 26 | #3,227 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 31 | #2,740 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 32 | #2,611 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 19 | #3,632 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 16 | #4,060 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 16 | #3,910 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 15 | #4,145 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 20 | #3,277 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 26 | #2,688 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 18 | #3,362 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,617 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 780 Americans recorded as Dylin, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dylin, and how old are they?
An estimated 766 Americans named Dylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 715 people named Dylin (160 women and girls, 555 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 740 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 453,060 babies since 1880, Dylin is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 6,903 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dylin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dylin and names like it
- Compare Dylin and DylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDylin peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dylin since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Dylin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dylin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.