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Dillyn

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
DIL-in
Origin
Modern

Dillyn is a name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Dillyn come from?

Modern: modern American variant of Dillon or Dylan

Is Dillyn a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Dillyn has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls.

How popular is Dillyn in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2013, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

Half of all the girls named Dillyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

2002Busiest: 19 in 20132023
Dillyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20236#13,456
20227#12,237
20217#12,201
202010#9,541
20199#10,467
201812#8,612
20177#12,709
201612#8,872
201513#8,443
201417#6,985
201319#6,459
20128#12,193
20117#13,339
20109#11,240
200911#9,971
200810#10,802
200712#9,535
200610#10,606
20055#16,455
200411#9,259
200312#8,500
20028#11,102

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Dillyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dillyn, updated 20 October 2026.