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Dylann vs Dyllan

American parents have registered 3,802 Dyllans since 1880, against 1,293 Dylanns. But in 2025 it was Dylann that was commoner, 22 babies to 18.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dylann 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 40 years in which either name was published, Dyllan for 30 years and Dylann for 10 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dylann Dyllan
Total US births 1,2933,802
Most in one year 80187
Babies in 2025 2218
Estimated living today 1,3003,700
Median age today 1222
Peak year 20161999
Best rank 2,966th girls834th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th7,194th
First recorded 19911986
Girls / boys 906 / 387500 / 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 Dylanns are over 12. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Dylann Dyllan
France 470140
England and Wales 9203

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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