Waylon
Waylon places #56 across the country in 2025, and rising year over year. First recorded 1911, best year 2025, 55,048 bearers across the whole run.
Waylon’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Waylon, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Waylon since 1911
Waylon is at its all-time peak right now: #56 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Waylon is most common
Among the states, Waylon takes its largest share in West Virginia, 1.87% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Wyoming and Montana next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Waylon
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Weston
#55 in 2025
Wesley
#52 in 2025
Willow
#44 in 2025
Walker
#78 in 2025
Wrenley
#159 in 2025
Sophie
#55 in 2025 · Greek
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Rowan
#59 in 2025
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About Waylon
How common is Waylon today?
Waylon places #56 across the country in 2025, and rising year over year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1911, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Waylon mean?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Waylon, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
What names go with Waylon?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Weston sits closest, with Wesley and Willow just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Waylon’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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