Xylo
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZY-loh
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #1,886 for boys
Xylo is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 1,886th for boys in the US (83 babies).
Where does Xylo come from?
Modern: perhaps from Greek xylo- 'wood', as in xylophone, or a respelling of Zylo
Is Xylo a girl's or a boy's name?
Xylo is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 83 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Xylo in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 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, 3 boys in the UK were named Xylo, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2014, with 3 boys.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Xylo in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
How popular is Xylo in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,886th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 83 about 1 in 21,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 83 boys in the US were named Xylo, making it the 1,886th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 2018.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most boys named Xylo of any year since it first appeared, in 2018.
Half of all the boys named Xylo in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 165 boys in the US were given Xylo or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,108, up from #1,886 for this spelling alone.
- Xylo 83
- Zylo 82
Girls were 36% of the babies named Xylo in the US in 2021, and 18% in 2024.
Xylo in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,886 |
| 2024 | 53 | #2,527 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,692 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,846 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,908 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
Names like Xylo
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Viggo, Kairo, Arlo, Guto, Kylo, Marco, Iago, Neco, Koa, Jago, Pablo, Kyro
Other spellings of Xylo
Names related to Xylo
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Xylo: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/xylo, updated 20 October 2026.