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Dyland vs Dyllan

American parents have registered 3,802 Dyllans since 1880, against 969 Dylands. But in 2025 it was Dyland that was commoner, 20 babies to 18.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dyland against Dyllan, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dyland Dyllan

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 41 years in which either name was published, Dyllan for 35 years and Dyland for 6 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Dyland Dyllan
Total US births 9693,802
Most in one year 122187
Babies in 2025 2018
Estimated living today 9603,700
Median age today 1122
Peak year 20131999
Best rank 1,376th boys834th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th7,194th
First recorded 19831986
Girls / boys 0 / 969500 / 3,302

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 Dyllans alive today are over 22; half the Dylands are over 11. That is 11 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 Dyllan.