Waylen is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Waylen is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1440 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,439 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Waylen.
Waylen is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Waylen cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #805 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Waylen, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Waylen seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Waylen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
You may not know anyone named Waylen, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to men and boys named Waylen. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Waylen living in one state or another. If your name is Waylen and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Indiana, which has the most people named Waylen relative to the population, you still have to ask 58,627 men and boys their names before you hear Waylen as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter W is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a W, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, W is by no means the rarest initial. While J, A and D are the most common first letters of boys' names, X, U and Q are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With six letters, the name Waylen is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.5% of all boys’ names begin with a W, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a W, William is currently the most common.
If your name is Waylen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Waylen, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Yoyo
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Waylen
Waylen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
A
Y
L
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
W
A
Y
L
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Waylen sounds like this:
