Waylin
Waylin was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,651 among boys’ names; 453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Waylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Waylin?
#3,651 among boys’ names, 2025
Waylin rose from #4,698 in 2015 to #3,651 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.0 to 18.1 per million.
38 babies in 2023, the peak
Waylin peaked in 2023, when 38 babies were given it (32 boys, #3,623 among boys’ names). The 31 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 31 | #3,651 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,389 | 23 | #4,558 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,069 | 32 | #3,623 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,606 | 27 | #4,077 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,945 | 23 | #4,483 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,976 | 18 | #5,212 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,837 | 22 | #4,623 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 16 | #5,751 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,658 | 21 | #4,734 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,118 | 24 | #4,316 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 21 | #4,698 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 24 | #4,253 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 17 | #5,383 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 17 | #5,462 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 15 | #5,924 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 11 | #7,555 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #12,402 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 8 | #9,817 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #12,283 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 8 | #9,538 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,888 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,489 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,769 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,438 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,732 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Waylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 453 Americans recorded as Waylin, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 31 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 Waylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Waylin, and how old are they?
An estimated 449 Americans named Waylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Waylin (34 women and girls, 287 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 60,330 babies since 1880, Waylin is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 5,865 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Waylin
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 Waylin and names like it
- Compare Waylin and WaylonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Waylin since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Waylin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Waylin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.