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Dyllan

Gender
Boy
Say it
DIL-un
Origin
Welsh
US rank, 2025
#7,190 for boys

Dyllan is a boys' name of Welsh origin, meaning “great tide”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).

What does Dyllan mean?

Welsh: spelling of Dylan

“great tide”

In the Welsh Mabinogion, Dylan ail Don is a sea-being; the poet Dylan Thomas made the name famous.

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

Dyllan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 11 boys in the US.

How popular is Dyllan in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 23 boys.

Half of all the boys named Dyllan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2011. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 23 in 20082019
Dyllan in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20193#4,913
20184#4,169
20173#4,995
201610#2,287
20156#3,149
20147#2,843
20137#2,792
20127#2,849
201116#1,542
201012#1,887
200914#1,674
200823#1,171
200712#1,760
200616#1,369
200510#1,814
20045#2,691
20036#2,283
200212#1,312
20019#1,547
200013#1,165
19999#1,451
19986#1,932
19979#1,412
199611#1,215

How popular is Dyllan in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,190among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 160,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 35% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Dyllan, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,017th. Its busiest year was 1999, with 181 boys. It first appears in the records in 1986. 7 girls were also named Dyllan in 2025 (11,928th for girls).

2025 had fewer boys named Dyllan than any year since 1988.

Half of all the boys named Dyllan in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 6,862 boys in the US were given Dyllan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #40, up from #7,190 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 7% of the babies named Dyllan in the US in 1991, and 20% in 2023.

1986Busiest: 181 in 19992025
Dyllan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#7,190
202412#6,827
202324#4,339
202217#5,441
202126#4,007
202025#4,017
201926#4,000
201821#4,606
201743#2,797
201657#2,305
201547#2,599
201470#2,016
201372#1,930
201273#1,941
201165#2,058
2010113#1,456
2009122#1,390
2008129#1,334
2007135#1,287
2006109#1,427
2005147#1,115
2004140#1,127
2003146#1,059
2002150#1,021
2001156#980
2000129#1,085
1999181#832
1998132#1,020
1997126#1,011
1996128#977
1995105#1,104
1994113#1,044
1993124#962
1992168#806
199192#1,141
199030#2,303
198913#4,011
19886#6,420
19879#4,567
198610#4,126

Names like Dyllan

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

Other spellings of Dyllan

Names related to Dyllan

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