How Many People Are Named Wayland?
people named Wayland are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 139,049 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,220 babies named Wayland in Social Security records from 1884 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
64 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Weland, the Old English cognate of WIELAND.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Wayland in English. Counting Wayland and these spellings together, about 56,662 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Wayland in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Wayland alive today is about 42 years old, and 37% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 17 and 63 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Wayland first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 2023, to 64 babies. In 2025, 61 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Wayland has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #782, in 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,301.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,301 |
| Best rank | #782 (1912) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,006 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Wayland alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Wayland were born in Texas than in any other state: about 339 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Wayland was given 9.5 times as often in Texas, 3.6 times in North Carolina and 2.9 times in Oklahoma.
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