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Dylon

#7,318 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dylon has been given to 4,517 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,318 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 258 recorded.

Babies named Dylon, 2025

1 in 301,000

Dylon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dylon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dylon means

Dylon is a given name.

The naming story behind Dylon

Wikidata records Dylon as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98651520, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,517 boys were recorded with the name Dylon between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 258 in 1992; its best national rank was #640 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,580 in 2020 to #7,318 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,692 in 2015 to #7,318 in 2025.

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.

How common is Dylon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,318
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dylon 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dylon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dylons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dylon was born before 2000 — so the typical Dylon is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,517
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (1,985).

Is Dylon 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
−2,209
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,738
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,626
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.24×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.3%
Peak was 1992 (258)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#640
1992

Spellings of Dylon

Dylon is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 29.1% against Dylon's 0.31%.

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 Dylon is used

Across 1910–2025, Dylon was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 61,311 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alaska1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 50,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Dylon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dylon around the world

Where Dylon 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
    1996–2018
    #3,412
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    1994–1997
    #291
    in 1997
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–1998
    #272
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    1996–2002
    #451
    in 2002
  • France
    2013–2013
    #4,691
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,118
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1984–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Dylon

People whose public names include Dylon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dylon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,318
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,738
Best rank ever
#640
1992
Peak year
1992
258 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,517
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Dylon

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

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Names with a curve like Dylon

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

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Sibling names for Dylon

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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