Tylan

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 118 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
118
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4275
4 babies

Tylan by the numbers

In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Tylan. In the US, 118 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 142 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Tylan

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

  • Tytanpowerful giant; an altered spelling of Titan55 in the US (2017)
  • Tylarone who tiles; a modern respelling of Tyler43 in the US (2017)
  • Tynandark, dusky7 in the US (2017)
  • Tylen79 in the US (2017)
  • Talan65 in the US (2017)
  • Taylan48 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Tylan

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

Names about as common as Tylan

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