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Daylan

#2,576 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Daylan has been given to 2,913 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,576 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Daylan, 2025

1 in 65,000

Daylan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daylan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daylan means

Daylan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Daylan is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,829 boys were recorded with the name Daylan between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,224 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,271 in 2020 to #2,576 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,782 in 2015 to #2,576 in 2025.

In the United States, 84 girls were recorded with the name Daylan between 1992 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2000; its best national rank was #10,094 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Daylan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,576
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daylan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daylan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daylans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daylan was born before 2007 — so the typical Daylan is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,829
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (1,030).

Is Daylan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−256
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−305
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−794
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.8%
Peak was 2008 (125)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,224
2003

Spellings of Daylan

Daylan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 26.7% against Daylan's 0.18%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Daylan is used

Across 2016–2025, Daylan was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 27,783 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 7,692
  2. 2Alabama1 in 8,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 14,286
  4. 4Georgia1 in 16,667
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8California1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Daylan around the world

Where Daylan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2007–2025
    #3,047
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1976–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Daylan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,576
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 305
Best rank ever
#1,224
2003
Peak year
2008
125 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,829
Count in 2025
51

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,094
2000
Peak year
2000
9 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daylan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Daylan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Daylan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Daylan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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