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Weylin vs Weyman

American parents have registered 669 Weylins since 1880, against 562 Weymans. Weylin is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Weylin against Weyman, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Weylin Weyman

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 105 years in which either name was published, Weylin for 54 years and Weyman for 51 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Weylin Weyman
Total US births 669562
Most in one year 2818
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 640170
Median age today 2672
Peak year 20181919
Best rank 3,793rd boys1,811th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rdunranked
First recorded 19511911
Girls / boys 0 / 6690 / 562

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 Weymans alive today are over 72; half the Weylins are over 26. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

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