Dyson
Dyson was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,084 among boys’ names; 1,588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Dyson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dyson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dyson?
#5,084 among boys’ names, 2025
Dyson fell from #1,985 in 2015 to #5,084 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.1 to 11.1 per million.
96 babies in 2012, the peak
Dyson peaked in 2012, when 96 boys were given it, #1,619 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,084 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,102 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,514 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,792 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,518 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,853 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,955 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,960 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,606 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,148 | 33.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #1,985 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 80 | #1,846 | 41.6 |
| 2013 | 76 | #1,868 | 40.2 |
| 2012 | 96 | #1,619 | 50.6 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,972 | 36.9 |
| 2010 | 71 | #1,961 | 37.0 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,014 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,166 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 86 | #1,731 | 41.4 |
| 2006 | 73 | #1,861 | 35.5 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,817 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 69 | #1,804 | 34.8 |
| 2003 | 59 | #1,963 | 29.9 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,069 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,699 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,439 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,571 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,117 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,041 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,402 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,107 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,146 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,916 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,769 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,536 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,244 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,005 | 3.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,322 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dyson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dyson has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dyson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dyson, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,588 Americans ever recorded as Dyson. The median Dyson alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,336 people named Dyson (17 women and girls, 1,319 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 915 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 582 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,690 babies since 1880, Dyson is the most given (94% of them).
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 Dyson
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 Dyson and names like it
- Compare Dyson and DysenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDyson peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dyson since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Dyson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dyson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.