Waylin — #4466 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Waylin

The Social Security Administration has registered 367 babies named Waylin between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Waylin currently holds the #4466 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Waylin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 55 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Waylin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 188 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Waylin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Indiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Waylin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Waylin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 367 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.