Spellings
Waylon or Waylen?
In the US in 2025, 94% of babies in this name family were spelled Waylon and 5% Waylen. Same name, slightly different impression: here are the figures for each spelling.
Ten years ago
Waylon already led in 2015, with 94% of the family's births; it has 94% in 2025. All spellings together, the family went from 1,866 to 5,748 births (×3).
| Spelling | 2015 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waylon | 1,761 | 5,408 | ×3 |
| Waylen | 61 | 289 | ×5 |
| Waylan | 44 | 51 | +16% |
How they sound
All of these spellings are said the same way: /ˈweɪlən/ (WAY-lun). So the choice is about how it looks: it is the spelling people will read on a birth card, a name tag or an email address, and the one your child will sometimes spell out.
In France
In France in 2025: Waylon 10 births and Waylan 5 births. The other spellings are not given there often enough to be counted.
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Insee (France), 2025 data. How we calculate these figures.
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