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Dyland vs Dylen

American parents have registered 1,060 Dylens since 1880, against 969 Dylands. But in 2025 it was Dyland that was commoner, 20 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dyland against Dylen, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dyland Dylen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Dyland for 19 years and Dylen for 19 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dyland Dylen
Total US births 9691,060
Most in one year 12263
Babies in 2025 206
Estimated living today 9601,000
Median age today 1119
Peak year 20132004
Best rank 1,376th boys2,051st boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th10,695th
First recorded 19831991
Girls / boys 0 / 96922 / 1,038

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dylens alive today are over 19; half the Dylands are over 11. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dyland and Dylen.