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Fallon vs Fallyn

American parents have registered 12,253 Fallons since 1880, against 1,577 Fallyns. Fallon is still ahead, with 364 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Fallon against Fallyn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Fallon Fallyn

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

Fallon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Fallon had 229 and Fallyn had 76.

Side by side

  Fallon Fallyn
Total US births 12,2531,577
Most in one year 61884
Babies in 2025 36433
Estimated living today 12,0001,600
Median age today 2113
Peak year 19822015
Best rank 376th girls2,236th girls
Rank in 2025 778th4,265th
First recorded 19721981
Girls / boys 11,634 / 6191,577 / 0

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 Fallons alive today are over 21; half the Fallyns are over 13. That is 8 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 Fallon Fallyn
England and Wales 87810
Scotland 22812
Ireland 863

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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