Dylon
- Pronunciation
- [Dy-lon]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Not recorded
- Origin
- English
Dylon is a name traditionally given to a boy of English origin. Our sources do not preserve a single agreed-upon literal translation for this particular name, so we list its meaning as unrecorded rather than guess at one. Browse more English baby names or search the full library by meaning.
About the Name Dylon
Dylon is a modern respelling of Dylan, the beloved Welsh name associated with the sea and famously read as "son of the wave" or "great tide," the name of a legendary figure in Welsh mythology. The Dylon spelling carries no separate ancient etymology of its own; it is best understood as a contemporary variant that reshapes the ending for a fresh visual style, born of the broad turn-of-the-millennium taste for personalizing popular names through inventive spellings.
The spelling had a short, early-2000s window on the national charts. Dylon first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000, reached its best rank of #751 that same year, and dropped off the list after 2005, when it stood at #980. Altogether it was given to about 1,188 boys during those years, the signature of an inventive variant carried along by Dylan's broader popularity before receding as tastes in spelling shifted once more.
Dylon's appeal lies in its connection to the rugged, lyrical Dylan tradition combined with a distinctive, individual look on the page. It keeps the same easygoing, sea-touched sound while standing slightly apart from the crowd. Recorded variants in this family include Dilan, Dillan, Dillen, and Dyllan, giving parents a whole spectrum of spellings for the same relaxed, melodic, and enduringly popular name.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Dylon
US Popularity History (2000–2005)
Annual US births named Dylon by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 225 boys named Dylon (boy rank #751 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2005, ranked #980 for boys (177 US births). That's 229 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Dylon Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2001–2010 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Dylon the strongest states are Michigan, Louisiana, Arizona.
Strongest boys-name states
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2001–2010. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Dylon in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Dylon to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Dylon against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).