Waylen
Waylen was given to 289 boys in 2025, #849 among boys’ names; 2,615 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Waylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Waylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Waylen?
#849 among boys’ names, 2025
Waylen rose from #2,230 in 2015 to #849 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.17 per 1,000.
411 babies in 2023, the peak
Waylen peaked in 2023, when 411 babies were given it (403 boys, #678 among boys’ names). The 289 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 289 | #849 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 316 | #797 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 403 | #678 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 263 | #894 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 158 | #1,224 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,526 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 147 | #1,276 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 85 | #1,806 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 87 | #1,777 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,084 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,230 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,094 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,397 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,411 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,199 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,704 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,822 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,257 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,375 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,092 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,603 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,502 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,246 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,063 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,419 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #6,015 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,288 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,658 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,566 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,926 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,415 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,441 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,245 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Waylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,615 Americans recorded as Waylen, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 289 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Waylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Waylen, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,615 Americans ever recorded as Waylen. The median Waylen alive today is 4 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,004 people named Waylen (32 women and girls, 972 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,043 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
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 Waylen born?
The states with the most babies named Waylen are Ohio, Florida and Texas, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 22 | #496 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 15 | #954 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,345 | 0.3× |
| California | 14 | #1,359 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 13 | #542 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #702 | 0.8× |
| New York | 13 | #987 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 12 | #789 | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 12 | #515 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 12 | #676 | 0.7× |
Where Waylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Waylen is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1947 it was given 1.7 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 Waylen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 60,330 babies since 1880, Waylen is the second most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 289 of their 5,865 babies (4.9%), again the second most given.
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 Waylen
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 Waylen and names like it
- Compare Waylen and WaylonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWaylen peaked in 2023.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Waylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Waylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Waylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.