Waylen

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Waylen is ranked 796th among boys in 2024 (315 births). Its best rank was 678th, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #796down 118 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3150.02% of boys
Peak year: 2023402 births
Best rank: #678in 2023
Since 1947: 2,323people given the name

Babies named Waylen, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

2,260 boys have been named Waylen in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 402 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2021, and the 2020s alone account for 55%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 63 girls have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

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

By decade

Decade	boys named Waylen
1940s	5
1950s	5
1960s	12
1970s	32
1980s	17
1990s	40
2000s	192
2010s	710
2020s	1,247

In 2023, its biggest year

Waylen was the 678th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2023 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Waylen

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.