Waylon
Waylon is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 56th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 56th. About 54,000 Waylons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Waylon boys named Waylon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 55,338
- Estimated living today
- 54,000
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 56th
- Rank in 2025
- 56th
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 290 / 55,048
How old the living Waylons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 55,338 babies given the name since 1911, about 54,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 47,000 of them are children and 210 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Variant of Wayland popularized by the American singer Waylon Jennings who was originally named Wayland.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Waylons
- Waylon Jennings (1937–2002)American country musician
- Waylon (born 1980)Dutch singer
- Waylon Francis (born 1990)Costa Rican footballer
People named Waylon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Waylon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Waylon is most concentrated in Kentucky (2.5×), Tennessee (2.5×), Alaska (2.1×), Oklahoma (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Waylon peaked:
Waylon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Waylon | 155 | 1,515th |
| England and Wales boys | Waylon | 48 | 2,269th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Waylon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.