Falyn

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 34 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
34
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Falyn by the numbers

Falyn was given to 34 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 51 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Falyn

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 Falyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Fallyndescended from the ruler; a modern respelling of Fallon with -yn suffix62 in the US (2017)
  • Falynn30 in the US (2017)
  • Faelyn19 in the US (2017)
  • Falon18 in the US (2017)
  • Faryn13 in the US (2017)
  • Faylyn5 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Falyn

Names that are said the same way as Falyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Fallondescended from the ruler238 in the US (2017)
  • Valinstrong; powerful6 in the US (2017)
  • Vallonsmall valley; diminutive of val6 in the US (2017)
  • Valyn16 in the US (2017)
  • Fayelynn15 in the US (2017)
  • Vallen12 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Falyn

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