Dylan
Dylan is ranked 28th among boys in 2024 (7,464 births). Its best rank was 19th, in 2003–2004.
- Rank in 2024
- #28up 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7,4640.44% of boys
- Peak year
- 200116,497 births
- Best rank
- #19first in 2003
- Since 1953
- 428,351people given the name
The story in the numbers
412,422 boys have been named Dylan in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 16,497 births — 0.85% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 29 → 28).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 35 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 15,929 girls have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dylan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 98 | |
| 1960s | 683 | |
| 1970s | 4,036 | |
| 1980s | 14,171 | |
| 1990s | 122,074 | |
| 2000s | 140,121 | |
| 2010s | 96,348 | |
| 2020s | 34,891 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Dylan was the 21st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Dylan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Parthpeak 1999
- Cameronpeak 2000
- Demitripeak 2001
- Akashpeak 2002
- Nikolaspeak 2004
- Aakashpeak 2002
- Markelpeak 1999
- Davontaepeak 1992
Other spellings in the data
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.