Fun Facts About the Name Dylon
- More than 4 thousand babies named Dylon: U.S. records list 4,517 babies given the name Dylon from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Dylon Mean?
Dylon is a modern English respelling of Dylan, a name of Welsh origin. The customary meaning is "son of the sea," drawn from Welsh elements associated with water: dylif (flood, flow) and ton (wave). The exact makeup of the original Welsh name is not fully settled - some explanations connect it instead to dy plus llanw (tide) - but the sea association is consistent across them. Welsh tradition preserves the fuller form Dylan ail Don, meaning roughly "Dylan of the Wave." The spelling Dylon keeps the familiar English pronunciation and changes only the written vowels; it does not carry a separate meaning of its own.
Dylon Name History & Origins
The parent name Dylan belongs to medieval Welsh tradition. In the tales gathered as the Mabinogion, Dylan ail Don is a son of Arianrhod who is baptized and at once makes for the sea, and the story ties him to the waves. That traditional literary account is the earliest setting in which the name is well known, though it is not evidence that a single author invented the name. The name was used in Wales, and it later appears in broader English-speaking use as a given name.
Dylon is a respelled variant rather than a distinct name with its own separate history. Writers of English have long adjusted Welsh spellings to match English pronunciation, and Dylon substitutes y and o for the vowels of Dylan while the spoken form stays the same. It is one of several such respellings and shares the same origin and sense as Dylan.
How Popular is the Name Dylon?
Dylon recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1992. Its best rank was #642 in 1992.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,322 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #5,090 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2023 | #4,921 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2022 | #4,600 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2021 | #5,177 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2020 | #4,582 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #4,841 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2018 | #3,315 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2017 | #3,139 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 2016 | #2,696 | 45 | 0.0024% |
| 2015 | #2,691 | 45 | 0.0023% |
| 2014 | #2,519 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 2013 | #2,471 | 50 | 0.0026% |
| 2012 | #2,162 | 62 | 0.0033% |
| 2011 | #1,910 | 73 | 0.0038% |
| 2010 | #1,577 | 100 | 0.0052% |
| 2009 | #1,426 | 118 | 0.0059% |
| 2008 | #1,479 | 111 | 0.0054% |
| 2007 | #1,354 | 124 | 0.0060% |
| 2006 | #1,049 | 171 | 0.0083% |
| 2005 | #980 | 177 | 0.0089% |
| 2004 | #832 | 214 | 0.0108% |
| 2003 | #893 | 188 | 0.0095% |
| 2002 | #910 | 177 | 0.0091% |
| 2001 | #808 | 207 | 0.0107% |
| 2000 | #751 | 225 | 0.0115% |
| 1999 | #723 | 227 | 0.0118% |
| 1998 | #713 | 234 | 0.0122% |
| 1997 | #722 | 216 | 0.0115% |
| 1996 | #811 | 177 | 0.0093% |
| 1995 | #763 | 199 | 0.0105% |
| 1994 | #709 | 217 | 0.0112% |
| 1993 | #687 | 225 | 0.0115% |
| 1992 | #642 | 258 | 0.0129% |
| 1991 | #794 | 169 | 0.0084% |
| 1990 | #1,412 | 63 | 0.0031% |
| 1989 | #2,003 | 36 | 0.0018% |
| 1988 | #2,324 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 1987 | #2,587 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1986 | #2,115 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 1985 | #3,463 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1983 | #3,464 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1982 | #5,853 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #4,640 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1980 | #6,533 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1979 | #3,412 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1976 | #5,855 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1975 | #4,985 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1974 | #3,939 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1973 | #3,521 | 9 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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