Klayton
#1,793 for boys in 2025, 89 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,015since 1958
Klayton over time
Rank among boys' names. Klayton 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,793 | 89 |
| 2024 | #1,878 | 85 |
| 2023 | #1,851 | 86 |
| 2022 | #1,665 | 103 |
| 2021 | #1,678 | 98 |
| 2020 | #1,962 | 73 |
| 2019 | #1,441 | 121 |
| 2018 | #1,401 | 125 |
| 2017 | #1,429 | 121 |
| 2016 | #1,539 | 108 |
| 2015 | #1,581 | 102 |
| 2014 | #1,979 | 72 |
| 2013 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 2012 | #1,818 | 81 |
| 2011 | #1,656 | 91 |
| 2010 | #1,816 | 80 |
| 2009 | #1,910 | 75 |
| 2008 | #2,161 | 62 |
| 2007 | #1,830 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,285 | 55 |
| 2005 | #1,573 | 88 |
| 2004 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 2003 | #1,687 | 73 |
| 2002 | #1,708 | 68 |
| 2001 | #1,912 | 57 |
| 2000 | #1,564 | 76 |
| 1999 | #1,720 | 60 |
| 1998 | #1,574 | 67 |
| 1997 | #1,672 | 59 |
| 1996 | #1,842 | 49 |
| 1995 | #1,841 | 47 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | #1,870 | 41 |
| 1989 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | #2,020 | 30 |
| 1986 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #2,427 | 21 |
| 1984 | #1,842 | 30 |
| 1983 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
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| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Klayton! It came in at #3,944, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1962, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Klayton is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#296 · 1 in 1,259
- Kentucky#642 · 1 in 4,186
- Oklahoma#674 · 1 in 3,764
- Alabama#738 · 1 in 4,524
- Indiana#743 · 1 in 4,852
Best ever in a state: #296 in West Virginia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #296 | 6 | 1 in 1,259 |
| Kentucky | #642 | 5 | 1 in 4,186 |
| Oklahoma | #674 | 5 | 1 in 3,764 |
| Alabama | #738 | 5 | 1 in 4,524 |
| Indiana | #743 | 7 | 1 in 4,852 |
| Ohio | #910 | 8 | 1 in 7,164 |
| North Carolina | #1,139 | 5 | 1 in 10,032 |
| Illinois | #1,324 | 5 | 1 in 11,934 |
| California | #1,534 | 11 | 1 in 18,774 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 10 | 1 in 17,488 |
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See more about Klayton
- 85 spots since 2024 (#1,878 → #1,793)
- 169 spots since 2020 (#1,962 → #1,793)
- 212 spots since 2015 (#1,581 → #1,793)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2018 at #1,401 (125 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,529 boys born in 2018 were named Klayton (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,192 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.1% of all boys named Klayton (998) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 5 | #3,944 (1958) | #3,944 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,646 (1963) | #3,646 |
| 1970s | 68 | #2,799 (1974) | #3,941 |
| 1980s | 220 | #1,842 (1984) | #2,671 |
| 1990s | 487 | #1,574 (1998) | #1,859 |
| 2000s | 697 | #1,564 (2000) | #1,854 |
| 2010s | 998 | #1,401 (2018) | #1,625 |
| 2020s | 534 | #1,665 (2022) | #1,805 |
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.
Klayton in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 14,529 of them was named Klayton, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,396Kennedy126
- #1,396Sheldon126
- #1,396Wolfgang126
- #1,401Klayton125
- #1,401Avyaan125
- #1,401Jaidyn125
- #1,401Maksim125
- #1,408Arden124
- #1,408Aurelio124
- #1,408Dovid124
Tied with 6 names at #1,401; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.