Daylon
Masculine
Daylon is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 3,284 boys against 10 girls since 1880.
Daylon joins a Day- front to a -lon ending, and it belongs to the American naming workshop of recent decades.
How old is the name Daylon?
Daylon first appears in US birth records in 1943 — 82 years ago. The typical Daylon alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 3,200 people named Daylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daylon most popular?
Daylon peaked in 2002, reaching #1008 nationally. Today it ranks #2363, 1,355 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Daylon
Our story of Daylon is a story of an ending borrowed from one real name. Waylon descends from Weland, the smith of Germanic legend, and Waylon Jennings made it familiar; American naming then took the -lon ending as free material and produced Daylon, Braylon, Jaylon and Kaylon. Only Waylon has a documented past. Daylon appears in the registers from the 1990s, and its ancestry is other American names.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented etymology. It is a modern American coinage on the Day- front and -lon ending, alongside Waylon, Braylon and Jaylon. Waylon has a genuine older ancestry; Daylon is not documented from it. Honest sources record it as a coinage.
Pronouncing Daylon
DAY-lun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Daylon and Daylen are said identically.
Nicknames for Daylon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1943
- Most boys named
- 2002154 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1008reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- −9.4%58 in 2025, from 64
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Daylon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Daylen in English — spelling variant
- Waylon in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama.
Daylons among us
people named Daylon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 29,450 born in 2025 was named Daylon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Fermin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daylon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Fermin climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Fermin's path sketches the road Daylon is walking now.
Daylon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Daylon is headed
Daylon should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Daylon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daylon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Day and Lon are two short forms, both usable.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It belongs to a documented American naming family.
- There is no documented meaning.
- Waylon and Daylon are close enough to confuse.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Daylons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Daylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Daylon in 2025?
- Daylon ranks #2363 among US boy names in 2025, with 58 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daylon?
- About 1 in every 29,450 US boys born in 2025 was named Daylon — 58 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daylon with classmates?
- Daylon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Daylon
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