Wylan
Wylan was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,426 among boys’ names; 320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wylan?
#6,426 among boys’ names, 2025
Wylan fell from #5,730 in 2015 to #6,426 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 8.2 per million.
16 babies in 2009, the peak
Wylan peaked in 2009, when 16 boys were given it, #5,783 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,426 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,231 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,486 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,942 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,317 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,681 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #12,061 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 15 | #6,020 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,650 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,327 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,730 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,605 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,222 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,278 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,233 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,339 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,783 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,047 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,889 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,609 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,067 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,687 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,352 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,502 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #12,061 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,670 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,522 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,591 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wylan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wylan, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Wylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Wylan (18 women and girls, 269 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 243 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 557 babies since 1880, Wylan is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 21 babies (67%), again the 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 Wylan
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 Wylan and names like it
- Compare Wylan and WilianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sWylan peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Wylan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wylan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.