Baby name

Dylan

Boy

Origin of the name

Dylan is a Welsh name, made of dy, “great,” and llanw, “tide, sea”: “great sea.” In Welsh mythology, Dylan is a god linked to the sea.

Short-lived name

Dylan peaked in 2001, when 1 baby in 227 was given the name. Since then, the name has fallen 58%, to about 6,860 births a year. In 2025, it ranked No. 41. 33% of all babies named Dylan since 1880 were born in the 2000s.

418,679births since 1880

2000sgeneration

No. 21rank at its peak, in 2001

Where babies named Dylan are born

2001

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The darker the blue, the more common Dylan is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Dylan is most common in Vermont (1.7 times), Nevada (1.7) and New Hampshire (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Rylan 34,532
Kylan 10,734
Dilan 6,034
Dylon 4,517
Tylan 3,908
Dyllan 3,302

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