Dylen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- DIL-an
- Origin
- Welsh
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Dylen is a boys' name of Welsh origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Dylen mean?
Welsh: spelling of Dylan; Welsh name, perhaps from dy, great, and llanw, tide
In the Mabinogion, Dylan ail Don is a sea-being who swims like a fish; the poet Dylan Thomas made the name famous.
Meaning borrowed from Dylan. More on Wiktionary.
Is Dylen a girl's or a boy's name?
Dylen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dylen in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2005, with 6 boys.
Dylen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 4 | #3,986 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #2,545 |
How popular is Dylen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Dylen, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 58 boys. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had the fewest boys named Dylen since it first appeared, in 1991.
Half of all the boys named Dylen in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,862 boys in the US were given Dylen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #40, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
Dylen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,316 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,101 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,595 |
| 2015 | 36 | #3,148 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,369 |
| 2013 | 37 | #2,996 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,294 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,698 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,681 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,104 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,219 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,442 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,831 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,261 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,047 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,466 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,500 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,273 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,132 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,260 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,596 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,872 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,478 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,015 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,946 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,937 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,593 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,468 |
Names like Dylen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aiden, Kayden, Finn, Dylan, Declan, Brody, Kian, Ronan, Brayden, Caelan, Logan, Darragh
Other spellings of Dylen
Dylan, Dilan, Dillon, Dillan, Dillion, Dyllan, Dylon, Dylin, Dylann, Dhylan
Names related to Dylen
More Welsh names
Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Reese, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Seren, Gwendolyn, Winifred, Meredith
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Dylen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dylen, updated 20 October 2026.