girls:
6 births since 2023
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 2014
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
22 births since 2014
#7717 (0th percentile)
The name Wailyn is the #7,717 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22 recorded births since 2014. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2014. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2023.
Wailyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2014 (2014 for boys and 2023 for girls). Birth data for Wailyn is available in 3 out of the 10 years between 2014 and 2023 (3 years for boys and 1 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 Wailyn has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 45.5% of babies named Wailyn were boys.
For boys, Wailyn reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #916) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Wailyn ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 87.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wailyn 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). Currently, Wailyn 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 "Wailyn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Wailyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.7% confident that Wailyn is pronounced as WAY-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WAY-luhn, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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