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Zylon

Gender
Boy
Say it
ZY-lun
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#4,138 for boys

Zylon is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,138th for boys in the US (25 babies).

Where does Zylon come from?

Modern: spelling of Zylan; rhyming variant of Dylan and Kylan with an initial Z

Meaning borrowed from Zylan.

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

Zylon is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 25 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Zylon in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,138among boys
Babies in 2025
25about 1 in 68,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 92% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 25 boys in the US were named Zylon, making it the 4,138th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 2005.

Half of all the boys named Zylon in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 154 boys in the US were given Zylon or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,151, up from #4,138 for this spelling alone.

2005Busiest: 31 in 20242025
Zylon in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202525#4,138
202431#3,603
202317#5,465
20225#12,322
202111#7,084
202011#7,029
201913#6,401
201814#6,032
20178#8,835
20168#8,811
201512#6,671
20147#9,636
20139#8,113
20127#9,703
201110#7,495
20100–
20090–
20088#9,013
20077#9,782
20065#12,048
20055#11,464

Names like Zylon

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

Other spellings of Zylon

Names related to Zylon

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