Waylon
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Waylon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Wayland popularized by the American singer Waylon Jennings who was originally named Wayland.
- USUnited States1 in 14K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 55Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 76Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
23,106 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Wayland popularized by the American singer Waylon Jennings who was originally named Wayland.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Waylon, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Waylon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 23,106 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Waylon | 309 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 95K | 36 | Waylon | 80 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 198K | listed | Waylon | 48 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Waylon | 20 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 3 | Waylon | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 182 | 1 in 95K | 182 | Waylon | 8 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Waylon | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Waylon | 10 |
| CU Cuba | #971 | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Waylon | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 12 | — | 18 |
23,106 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Waylon Jenningsb. 1937USAmerican country musician (1937–2002)
- Waylon Payneb. 1972USAmerican musician and actor
- Waylon Reavisb. 1978USAmerican vocalist
- Shooter Jenningsb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician and record producer
- Waylon Loweb. 1980USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
- Waylon Woolcockb. 1982ZASouth African mountain biker
- Waylon Pratherb. 1985USplayer of American football
- Waylon Murrayb. 1986ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Waylon Francisb. 1990CRCosta Rican footballer
- Waylon Jacobsactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Waylon a male or female name?
- Waylon is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Waylon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Waylon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waylon.
- Where is Waylon most common?
- Waylon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Waylon mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Wayland popularized by the American singer Waylon Jennings who was originally named Wayland. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How common is the name Waylon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,106 people named Waylon in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Waylon compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Waylon is the 971st most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Waylon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waylonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Waylon” — the 971st most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.