Dylan
Dylan is a predominantly male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
The first name Dylan is of Welsh origin and means "great flood", derived from the Welsh words dy ("large (good)") and llanw ("flood, current", meaning ebb and flow ). As a - rather seldom - family name Dylan occurs especially in the USA.
Name bearer
Legendary figure
- Dylan Eil Ton , son of the Welsh legendary figure Arianrhod
Male first name
- Dylan Armstrong (born 1981), Canadian shot putter
- Dylan van Baarle (* 1992), Dutch cyclist
- Dylan Baker (born 1959), American actor
- Dylan Kennett (* 1994), New Zealand cyclist
- Dylan McDermott (born 1961), American actor
- Dylan McGeouch (born 1993), Scottish football player
- Dylan Minnette (* 1996), American actor and musician
- Dylan Moran (* 1971), Irish comedian
- Dylan O'Brien (born 1991), American actor
- Dylan Patton (* 1992), American actor
- Dylan van der Schyff (* 1970), Canadian jazz drummer
- Dylan Thomas Sprouse (* 1992), American actor
- Dylan Strome (born 1997), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet
- Dylan Tichenor (* 1968), American film editor
- Dylan Tombides (1994-2014), Australian soccer player
- Dylan Yeo (* 1986), Canadian ice hockey player
family name
- Bob Dylan (actually Robert Allen Zimmerman ; * 1941), American musician and poet
- Jakob Dylan (* 1969), American singer-songwriter, youngest son of Sara and Bob Dylan
- Jesse Dylan (* 1966), American film director, eldest son of Sara and Bob Dylan
- Sara Dylan (born 1939), Bob Dylan's first wife
pseudonym
- Cat Dylan (* 1978), German author of contemporary romance and young adult novels, see Laini Otis
Fictional people
- Dylan Hunt , a person in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda television series