girls:
36 births since 2002
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
90 births since 1993
#4496 (2nd percentile)
overall:
126 births since 1993
#7613 (2nd percentile)
The name Dylyn is the #7,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 126 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,496 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 90 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 2002.
Dylyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2002 for girls). Birth data for Dylyn is available in 17 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (13 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dylyn has been given predominantly to boys, with 71.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Dylyn were boys. Interestingly, until around 2017, the name was more popular for boys (78.3% boys from 1993 to 2016), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2017 to 2023).
For boys, Dylyn reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #809) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
For girls, Dylyn reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #946) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dylyn is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #946 (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dylyn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Dylyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Dylyn is pronounced as DIH-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DIH-luhn, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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