Dylin
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- DIL-an
- Origin
- Welsh
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Dylin is a name of Welsh origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Dylin 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 Dylin a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Dylin has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 8 boys in the US.
How popular is Dylin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 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, 8 boys in the US were named Dylin, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 37 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990. 5 girls were also named Dylin in 2025 (14,937th for girls).
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more boys named Dylin than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Dylin in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,862 boys in the US were given Dylin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #40, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.
Girls were 15% of the babies named Dylin in the US in 2001, and 33% in 2012.
Dylin in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,236 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,891 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,429 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,893 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,276 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,643 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,791 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,152 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,443 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,010 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,670 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,549 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,056 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,213 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,718 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,596 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,596 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,016 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,848 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,088 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,240 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,664 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,319 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,408 |
Names like Dylin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brayden, Declan, Keegan, Aiden, Kayden, Deacon, Ronan, Cannon, Finn, Finnegan, Brody, Kian
Other spellings of Dylin
Dylan, Dilan, Dillon, Dillan, Dillion, Dyllan, Dylon, Dylann, Dylen, Dhylan
Names related to Dylin
More Welsh names
Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Reese, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Seren, Gwendolyn, Winifred, Meredith
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, “Dylin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dylin, updated 20 October 2026.