Unisex name · since 2018
Waelyn
Waelyn has 71 recorded births since 2018 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,776 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #8,167 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 71
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
71 babies have been named Waelyn since 2018, making it today's #8167 unisex name.
Waelyn has 71 recorded births among boys since 2018, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8167 as of the latest data, more common than 41% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.
- #19,776 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #8,167 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 71 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Waelyn ranks #19,776 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,167 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 71 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #19,776 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #8,167 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 71
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Waelyn's 71 recorded births place it above 56.51% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Waelyn compares
71 21st percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Waelyn's all-time total is 81% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Waelyn | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 71 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 34 | 22,252 |
Waelyn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Waelyn's full recorded timeline at 2022, 65% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 35% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Waelyn popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Waelyn popularity over time - girls
38 total births recorded since 2018 (Waelyn as girls' name)
Waelyn by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (55 births, 77% of the file).
2020s was Waelyn's strongest decade.
55 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 77% of all-time use.
Waelyn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 16
2010s
16 births
- 2020s
2020s
55 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 55 births (77% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2018–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Waelyn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.