Waymon
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.
Waymon by the numbers
Waymon was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 95 babies in 1936, so it is a 1930s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Waymon
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 Waymon. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Waylonland beside the road2,434 in the US (2017)
- Watsonson of Walter; patronymic surname197 in the US (2017)
- Waylenland beside the road; a modern respelling of Waylon93 in the US (2017)
- Waylanland by the road; a form of Wayland44 in the US (2017)
- Waltonwalled settlement or town26 in the US (2017)
- Wymanbattle warrior; fighter in war9 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Waymon
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