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Dilynn

Gender
Girl
Say it
DIL-in
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Dilynn is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

Where does Dilynn come from?

Modern: spelling of Dillyn; modern American variant of Dillon or Dylan

Meaning borrowed from Dillyn.

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

Dilynn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Dilynn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Dilynn, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 41 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

2025 had fewer girls named Dilynn than any year since 2006.

Half of all the girls named Dilynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 426 girls in the US were given Dilynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #674, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 41 in 20112025
Dilynn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
202416#6,928
202314#7,635
202218#6,459
202117#6,686
202016#6,919
201919#6,172
201819#6,244
201728#4,809
201633#4,344
201538#3,914
201437#4,001
201324#5,484
201229#4,834
201141#3,722
201026#5,245
200930#4,804
200813#8,961
200713#9,003
200610#10,606
200517#6,815
200415#7,386
200319#6,050
20020–
20016#13,514

Names like Dilynn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Dilynn

Names related to Dilynn

More Modern names

Every Modern name

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, “Dilynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dilynn, updated 20 October 2026.