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Dylan's cool, has spunk, has personality, and is just great!

Lynda and Dylan are anagrams of each other; they contain the same letters.

My middle child (a boy) is named Dylan. I wanted all my kids (3) to have Welsh names. It is to tough to find Welsh names that are pronounceable and spellable by Americans. I really dislike the name Dylan for girls. The actual meaning of the name is SON of the sea. It makes no sense to name a girl something that means son. If you want to know more about the history of the name read the Mabinogion, which is a collection of ancient Welsh mythology. I was rather irritated that soon after I had chosen the name Dylan for my son, Beverly Hills 90210 got really popular and then suddenly the name Dylan shot up the charts. Then it seemed like I had named my child after a stupid TV show!

Dylan is my all-time favourite boys name and it really annoys me that it's gotten so popular as I really want to name my future son 'Dylan' and I didn't want him to have the same name as loads of others in his school.

Personal experiences with the name Dylan

My cousin's name was Dyllan {spelt with an extra l} and we used to call him D, D-man, and Dill Pickle. He's 13 now and absolutely hates all three nicknames but that doesn't stop me from calling him them.

Nicknames for Dylan

Dyl
Dilly/Dylly
Dyl-Dyl
Dilster

Meanings and history of the name Dylan

Dylan is a Welsh male given name meaning; Son of the sea, son of the ocean, born from the ocean.

Famous real-life people named Dylan

Dylan Geick - Instagram Star and Wrestler Love U dylan had to add u-Hailey B
Dylan O'Brien - American actor (Plays Stiles Stilinski on MTV's Teen Wolf.)
Dylan Sprayberry - American actor (Plays Liam on MTV's Teen Wolf.)
Dylan Thomas - Welsh poet
Dylan Moran - Irish comedian
Dylan McDermott - American actor
Dylan Sprouse - American actor (Plays Zack Martin on Disney's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and The Suite Life on Deck) Twin brother of Cole Sprouse
Dylan Dean -
Dylan Bruno - American actor
Dylan Strome - minor professional ice hockey player (Tuscon Roadrunners)
Dylan Ferguson - major junior ice hockey goalie (Kamloops Blaze)
Dylan Paul Conner (b. 2006), son of Romanian-born former gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci and retired American Olympic gymnast Bart Conner
Dylan Christopher Marshall (b. 2008), son of American actress Tracey Gold
Dylan Russell - Youtuber known as YuB and part of the band Thirtyseven

Dylan in song, story & screen

Emotional Dylynn- member of fake boyband Parxbo!s.
Dylan Ail Don, figure in Welsh Mythology.
Dylan named male doll, Groovy Girls
Dylan McKay,a character played by Luke Perry, on the television show 90210.
"Like Dylan in the Movies", a song by Belle and Sebastian
The main character Deryn Sharp goes by "Dylan" when she is pretending to be a boy to join the British Air Service in the book series Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld.
Dylan, character on the show Modern Family