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Dylann vs Dylin

American parents have registered 1,293 Dylanns since 1880, against 780 Dylins. Dylann is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dylann against Dylin, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dylann Dylin

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 36 years in which either name was published, Dylann for 19 years and Dylin for 17 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dylann Dylin
Total US births 1,293780
Most in one year 8046
Babies in 2025 2213
Estimated living today 1,300770
Median age today 1220
Peak year 20162003
Best rank 2,966th girls2,674th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th8,910th
First recorded 19911990
Girls / boys 906 / 387139 / 641

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 Dylins alive today are over 20; half the Dylanns are over 12. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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