Deylan
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Deylan by the numbers
Deylan was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 10 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Deylan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Deylan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Dylanson of the sea10,158 in the US (2017)
- Declanfull of goodness3,483 in the US (2017)
- Deklanman from Ireland; a modern respelling of Declan179 in the US (2017)
- Daylanson of the sea; a modern respelling of Dylan81 in the US (2017)
- Deyandivine or godly4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Delan6 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Deylan
Names that are said the same way as Deylan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Deylan
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