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Dylen

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Dylen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
90.00% of boys
Peak year
200458 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1991
1,054people given the name
Babies named Dylen, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,032 boys have been named Dylen in the United States since 1991, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 58 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 43%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 22 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Dylen
1990s229
2000s446
2010s312
2020s45

In 2004, its biggest year

Dylen was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.

Names that rose and fell with Dylen

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.