Given name

Drilon

Drilon is a masculine given name from Illyrian. It is used in Albanian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Drilon comes from Illyrian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Drilon through the years

Babies since 1880
22
22 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2003
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20030.0
Drilon in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2001–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2003.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

People named Drilon

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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