Dylon
Dylon was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,318 among boys’ names; 4,517 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,400 Americans named Dylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dylon?
#7,318 among boys’ names, 2025
Dylon fell from #2,692 in 2015 to #7,318 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 6.4 per million.
258 babies in 1992, the peak
Dylon peaked in 1992, when 258 boys were given it, #640 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,318 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,109 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,922 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,597 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,174 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,580 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,838 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,312 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,138 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,696 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,692 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,518 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 50 | #2,471 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,161 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 73 | #1,909 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,577 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,426 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,479 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,354 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 171 | #1,049 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 177 | #979 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 214 | #831 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 188 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 177 | #909 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 207 | #807 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 225 | #750 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 227 | #721 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 234 | #713 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 216 | #721 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 177 | #809 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 199 | #760 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 217 | #708 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 225 | #686 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 258 | #640 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 169 | #790 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 63 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 36 | #1,998 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,849 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,412 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,936 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,520 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dylon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dylon, and how old are they?
4,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,517 Americans ever recorded as Dylon. The median Dylon alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,874 people named Dylon (48 women and girls, 3,826 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 388 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dylon born?
The states with the most babies named Dylon are Texas, California and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 362 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 258 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 201 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 197 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 159 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 125 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 118 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 96 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 81 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Dylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dylon is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1973 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dylon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Dylon?
Dylon is a less common spelling of Dillon: SSA has recorded 4,517 Dylon and 66,270 Dillon since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 518,785 babies since 1880, Dylon is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 7,197 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Dylon
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 Dylon and names like it
- Compare Dylon and DillonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDylon peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dylon since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Dylon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dylon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.