How rare is the name Dylon?

3,874 people in the United States have the first name Dylon, about 1 in 77,964. It ranks #4,699 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

DYLON

#4,699

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,874
About
1 in 77,964
This common or more
84.4%
Who bears it

Of the 3,874 people named Dylon, 68.7% reported their origin as White, 12.2% as Black and 9.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dylon peaked in 1992, when 258 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19732025
Peak year
1992
Births that year
258
In 2025*
11 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 4,517 babies have been given the name since 1973. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dylon by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,713. The largest share of babies named Dylon, 58.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#13,18840
1980s#7,562154
1990s#1,7131,985
2000s#2,2841,712
2010s#5,547515
2020s#10,830111
Generation X 1965–801%
Millennials 1981–9632.3%
Generation Z 1997–1258.1%
2013 and later8.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dylon is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dylon has been most common in Florida (2.3×), Oklahoma (2.2×), and Texas (1.8×), and least common in Illinois (0.44×).

2,549 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Dylon

1 other first name also has 3,874 people.

#4,699 Nader · 3,874

Either side of Dylon

#4,696 Marleen · 3,875#4,696 Pawel · 3,875#4,699 Nader · 3,874#4,701 Tarek · 3,871

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dylon, most common first.

#145 Dylan · 343,919#11,297 Dylen · 1,144#11,351 Dyllon · 1,134#15,926 Dylin · 715#35,884 Dylyn · 223

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