Daylon
#2,365 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daylon has been given to 3,294 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #2,365 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 154 recorded.
Babies named Daylon, 2025
1 in 57,200
Daylon over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Daylon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 57,200
- 58 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 29,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,365
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 39,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daylon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daylon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daylons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daylon was born before 2004 — so the typical Daylon is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,279
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (1,187).
Is Daylon 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
- −125
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −361
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +50
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.09×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 37.7%
- Peak was 2002 (154)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.5% average annual change
Spellings of Daylon
Daylon is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 30.7% against Daylon's 0.24%.
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 Daylon is used
Across 2016–2025, Daylon was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 33,554 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 4,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 7,143
- 3Alabama1 in 11,111
- 4Texas1 in 20,000
- 5Arkansas1 in 25,000
- 6California1 in 100,000
- 7Florida1 in 100,000
- 8Georgia1 in 100,000
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.
Daylon around the world
Where Daylon 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.
- France2008–2025#4,646in 2025
- Canada1992–2011#2,141in 2011
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Daylon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Daylon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Daylon
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Daylon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Daylon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.