Drayton
#2,604 for boys in 2025, 50 births
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,063since 1915
Drayton over time
Rank among boys' names. Drayton has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,604 | 50 |
| 2024 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #3,629 | 31 |
| 2022 | #3,003 | 41 |
| 2021 | #3,814 | 28 |
| 2020 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #3,496 | 32 |
| 2018 | #3,373 | 33 |
| 2017 | #2,755 | 44 |
| 2016 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #2,864 | 41 |
| 2014 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #2,336 | 54 |
| 2012 | #1,863 | 78 |
| 2011 | #2,376 | 53 |
| 2010 | #2,287 | 56 |
| 2009 | #2,077 | 66 |
| 2008 | #1,948 | 73 |
| 2007 | #2,213 | 60 |
| 2006 | #2,285 | 55 |
| 2005 | #2,206 | 54 |
| 2004 | #2,283 | 50 |
| 2003 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #1,944 | 53 |
| 1999 | #2,347 | 38 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #2,299 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | #2,399 | 31 |
| 1992 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | #2,514 | 10 |
| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #2,671 | 9 |
| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,712 | 8 |
| 1941 | #2,872 | 7 |
| 1940 | #3,459 | 5 |
| 1939 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,368 | 10 |
| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #2,387 | 12 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,602 | 11 |
| 1919 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
| 1917 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #2,259 | 12 |
| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Drayton! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Drayton is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#364 · 1 in 1,901
- Texas#1,183 · 1 in 12,689
Best ever in a state: #305 in South Carolina, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #364 | 11 | 1 in 1,901 |
| Texas | #1,183 | 14 | 1 in 12,689 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Drayton
- 668 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #2,604)
- 670 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #2,604)
- 260 spots since 2015 (#2,864 → #2,604)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2012 at #1,863 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,320 boys born in 2012 were named Drayton (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,162 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.1% of all boys named Drayton (560) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 40 | #2,259 (1916) | #3,129 |
| 1920s | 49 | #2,387 (1928) | #3,251 |
| 1930s | 47 | #2,368 (1933) | #3,123 |
| 1940s | 53 | #2,671 (1947) | #3,043 |
| 1950s | 56 | #2,514 (1952) | #3,241 |
| 1960s | 61 | #2,780 (1965) | #3,461 |
| 1970s | 78 | #2,891 (1970) | #3,843 |
| 1980s | 95 | #3,440 (1986) | #4,500 |
| 1990s | 332 | #1,899 (1998) | #2,487 |
| 2000s | 560 | #1,906 (2003) | #2,148 |
| 2010s | 472 | #1,863 (2012) | #2,723 |
| 2020s | 220 | #2,604 (2025) | #3,266 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Drayton in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 24,320 of them was named Drayton, which outranked 86.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,849Yasin79
- #1,849Yasir79
- #1,849Yohan79
- #1,863Drayton78
- #1,863Broden78
- #1,863Darrien78
- #1,863Dave78
- #1,882Aeden77
- #1,882Arya77
- #1,882Cylus77
Tied with 18 names at #1,863; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.