Waylen
#849 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Waylen has been given to 2,615 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #849 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 403 recorded.
Babies named Waylen, 2025
1 in 11,500
Waylen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Waylen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 11,500
- 289 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 5,910
- 0.02% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #849
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 7,952 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Waylen 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 7,952 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waylen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Waylens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Waylen was born before 2021 — so the typical Waylen is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 60.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,547
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 60.3% of all recorded uses (1,539).
Is Waylen 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
- −52
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +677
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,381
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.74×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.7%
- Peak was 2023 (403)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Waylen
Waylen is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 19.9% against Waylen's 0.14%.
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 Waylen is used
Across 2016–2025, Waylen was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 9,857 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 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.
Waylen around the world
Where Waylen 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.
- Canada2012–2024#1,181in 2024
- South Australia1992–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Waylen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Waylen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Waylen
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Waylen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Waylen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.