Virlyn
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Virlyn has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1928. 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 1928, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Virlyn, 1952
1 in 759,000
Virlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Virlyn?
Virlyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1952, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1952
- 1 in 759,000
- 5 of 3,796,842 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 389,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1952
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 526,355 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Virlyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1952 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 526,355 children born in 1952 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Virlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Virlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Virlyn was born before 1933 — so the typical Virlyn is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 71.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 71.8% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Virlyn 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 1928 (6)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Virlyn
Virlyn is not the most common spelling — Verlin is, with 25.6% against Virlyn's 0.26%.
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.
Virlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Virlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Virlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.