Boy
Dillon
Dillon is a boy's name meaning "Welsh, son of the sea or great tide", drawing on Welsh roots. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The registry counts around 62,913 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
EtymologyVariant of Dylan
WelshWelsh – "son of the sea" or "great tide"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
127
1920s
169
1930s
123
1940s
92
1950s
76
1960s
81
1970s
485
1980s
4,531
1990s
32,832
2000s
17,893
2010s
6,504
Peaked in the 1990s · 62,913 total U.S. births since 1900