Nylan
#3,070 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nylan has been given to 684 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #3,070 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 54 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.
Babies named Nylan, 2025
1 in 82,900
Nylan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Nylan over time
In 2025, Nylan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Nylan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 82,900
- 40 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 42,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,070
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 57,449 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nylan 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nylan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nylans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nylan was born before 2017 — so the typical Nylan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 579
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (230).
Is Nylan 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
- −553
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +922
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,183
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 74.1%
- Peak was 2024 (54)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.6% average annual change
Spellings of Nylan
Nylan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 43.0% against Nylan's 0.03%.
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 Nylan is used
Across 1910–2025, Nylan was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 360,450 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5South Carolina1 in —
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. Nylan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nylan around the world
Where Nylan 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.
- France2000–2025#1,593in 2025
- Canada2013–2024#2,134in 2024
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.
Nylan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nylan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nylan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.