Dwaylon
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dwaylon has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1973, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Dwaylon, 2012
1 in 732,000
Dwaylon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dwaylon?
Dwaylon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,590 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,051 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dwaylon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dwaylon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dwaylons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dwaylon was born before 1975 — so the typical Dwaylon is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Dwaylon 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1973 (5)
- Years since peak
- 52
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Dwaylon
Dwaylon is not the most common spelling — Waylon is, with 38.5% against Dwaylon's 0.01%.
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.
Dwaylon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dwaylon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dwaylon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.