Waylon

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Waylon is ranked 65th among boys in 2024 (4,878 births). Its best rank was 62nd, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #65down 3 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4,8780.28% of boys
Peak year: 20224,918 births
Best rank: #62in 2023
Since 1911: 49,608people given the name

Babies named Waylon, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

49,608 boys have been named Waylon in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 4,918 births — 0.28% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2019, and the 2020s alone account for 46%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Waylon
1910s	34
1920s	107
1930s	187
1940s	181
1950s	141
1960s	320
1970s	1,604
1980s	1,945
1990s	1,206
2000s	3,345
2010s	17,605
2020s	22,933

In 2022, its biggest year

Waylon was the 66th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Waylon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.