Wayland
Wayland was given to 61 boys in 2025, #2,301 among boys’ names; 4,220 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Wayland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 17 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wayland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wayland?
#2,301 among boys’ names, 2025
Wayland rose from #3,019 in 2015 to #2,301 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 35.7 per million.
64 babies in 2023, the peak
Wayland peaked in 2023, when 64 boys were given it, #2,241 among boys’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,301 | 35.7 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,154 | 22.6 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,241 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,788 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,617 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,803 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,732 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,668 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,432 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,931 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,019 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,362 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,220 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,797 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,923 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 12 | #7,057 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,909 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,737 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,480 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,664 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,608 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,404 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,861 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,607 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,418 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,556 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,150 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 18 | #4,005 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,439 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,098 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,038 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,939 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,355 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,988 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,460 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,156 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,349 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,337 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,715 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,354 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,422 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,839 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,268 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,698 | 19.3 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,134 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,568 | 21.9 |
| 1979 | 32 | #1,787 | 18.6 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,434 | 26.2 |
| 1977 | 46 | #1,355 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 41 | #1,410 | 26.1 |
| 1975 | 38 | #1,453 | 24.3 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,197 | 31.2 |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,185 | 31.4 |
| 1972 | 36 | #1,439 | 22.2 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,164 | 28.3 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,191 | 26.4 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,095 | 28.5 |
| 1968 | 33 | #1,365 | 19.0 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,129 | 25.2 |
| 1966 | 29 | #1,448 | 16.3 |
| 1965 | 30 | #1,427 | 16.1 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,170 | 22.1 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,275 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,202 | 20.8 |
| 1961 | 34 | #1,385 | 16.0 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,190 | 20.6 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,320 | 16.9 |
| 1958 | 51 | #1,079 | 24.0 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,454 | 13.9 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,416 | 14.7 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,394 | 15.0 |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,080 | 24.0 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,120 | 22.3 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,344 | 16.5 |
| 1951 | 59 | #916 | 31.3 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,287 | 17.9 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,095 | 23.7 |
| 1948 | 57 | #921 | 32.5 |
| 1947 | 55 | #965 | 30.1 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,074 | 25.9 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,202 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,151 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 52 | #932 | 36.4 |
| 1942 | 59 | #857 | 42.7 |
| 1941 | 50 | #904 | 40.7 |
| 1940 | 57 | #840 | 49.2 |
| 1939 | 46 | #930 | 41.6 |
| 1938 | 53 | #859 | 47.8 |
| 1937 | 47 | #921 | 44.1 |
| 1936 | 47 | #905 | 45.3 |
| 1935 | 48 | #922 | 46.1 |
| 1934 | 52 | #880 | 50.4 |
| 1933 | 46 | #936 | 46.4 |
| 1932 | 43 | #1,024 | 41.2 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,049 | 40.4 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,150 | 34.6 |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,092 | 38.1 |
| 1928 | 51 | #962 | 46.0 |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,078 | 39.0 |
| 1926 | 53 | #943 | 47.7 |
| 1925 | 59 | #881 | 52.9 |
| 1924 | 57 | #933 | 50.3 |
| 1923 | 44 | #1,086 | 40.1 |
| 1922 | 54 | #957 | 49.6 |
| 1921 | 40 | #1,139 | 36.3 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,153 | 36.6 |
| 1919 | 43 | #1,046 | 43.9 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,058 | 41.4 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,109 | 40.0 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,156 | 37.1 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,123 | 40.1 |
| 1914 | 37 | #906 | 56.5 |
| 1913 | 34 | #831 | 66.3 |
| 1912 | 32 | #782 | 74.4 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,185 | 44.3 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,188 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,433 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,213 | 45.4 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,283 | 40.8 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,117 | 49.4 |
| 1889 | 7 | #874 | 63.3 |
| 1886 | 6 | #957 | 54.2 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,118 | 43.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wayland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wayland has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 123 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wayland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wayland, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 4,220 Americans ever recorded as Wayland. The median Wayland alive today is 47 years old; half are between 17 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 2,187 people named Wayland (16 women and girls, 2,171 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,386 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 161 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 518 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 583 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 362 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 259 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 539 |
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 Wayland born?
The states with the most babies named Wayland are Michigan, California and Virginia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #898 | 0.1× |
| California | 7 | #2,192 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,081 | 0.3× |
Where Wayland is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wayland is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.4 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 Wayland with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wayland
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 Wayland and names like it
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