Layton

#2,076 for girls in 2025, 90 births · #710 for boys in 2025, 377 births
Given to boys 91.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
2015 · 528 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
12,156
since 1880

Layton over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201907peak #541, 2015girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,07690#710377
2024#2,05394#693391
2023#1,98499#611457
2022#2,36478#634437
2021#2,18685#632437
2020#2,25779#621437
2019#2,40074#580481
2018#3,20150#658384
2017#3,84839#727328
2016#3,65642#636418
2015#3,00157#541528
2014#3,71941#639411
2013#3,91838#725322
2012#4,38733#609404
2011#3,65942#626376
2010#4,02337#643375
2009#4,80530#683355
2008#7,40817#775286
2007#9,53912#767286
2006#13,6067#718301
2005#10,12810#780251
2004#9,26411#949177
2003#7,58014#893188
2002#13,5956#895181
2001#12,0567#926167
2000#8,53411#1,121125
1999#8,80510#1,106120
1998#6,36015#1,105116
1997#8,33410#1,143108
1996#10,5677#1,34780
1995#10,5147#1,15199
1994#8,8049#1,26885
1993#13,4425#1,40768
1992—#1,22884
1991#13,1475#1,52857
1990—#1,75545
1989—#1,59050
1988—#1,64543
1987—#2,16927
1986—#1,96230
1985—#2,01928
1984—#1,84230
1983—#1,90528
1982—#2,11125
1981—#1,76632
1980—#2,11025
1979—#2,46519
1978—#2,13422
1977—#2,27020
1976—#2,32919
1975—#2,54016
1974—#1,98322
1973—#2,03620
1972—#2,41815
1971—#1,98721
1970—#1,88922
1969—#1,81021
1968—#1,73121
1967—#1,85318
1966—#1,65022
1965—#2,08415
1964—#1,51027
1963—#1,25538
1962—#1,47928
1961—#1,60225
1960—#1,48629
1959—#1,36033
1958—#1,53426
1957—#1,34534
1956—#1,76520
1955—#1,41929
1954—#1,29234
1953—#1,59223
1952—#1,32332
1951—#1,26134
1950—#1,43426
1949—#1,43426
1948—#1,23134
1947—#1,11642
1946—#1,44024
1945—#97143
1944—#1,07038
1943—#1,36826
1942—#1,08939
1941—#1,16932
1940—#1,15633
1939—#1,39023
1938—#1,00940
1937—#1,16832
1936—#97241
1935—#1,04038
1934—#1,49821
1933—#1,12434
1932—#1,28628
1931—#1,14535
1930—#1,23533
1929—#1,41326
1928—#1,12539
1927—#1,11241
1926—#1,09242
1925—#99847
1924—#98451
1923—#1,07644
1922—#1,25933
1921—#1,39029
1920—#1,34829
1919—#98947
1918—#94949
1917—#1,15234
1916—#1,07236
1915—#1,21729
1914—#1,22123
1913—#99525
1912—#1,09518
1911—#1,5376
1910——
1909—#1,4405
1908—#1,2176
1907—#86610
1906——
1905—#1,0916
1904—#1,2055
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1896—#8268
1895—#1,0795
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1881—#8665
1880—#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Layton was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1880–1895, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Layton is popular in 1907

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Layton
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 17 spots since 2024 (#693 → #710)
  • 89 spots since 2020 (#621 → #710)
  • 169 spots since 2015 (#541 → #710)
  • Biggest jump: 253 spots in 1896 (#1,079 → #826)
  • Biggest drop: 469 spots in 1946 (#971 → #1,440)
Rise & fade · boys
135 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 2015 at #541 (528 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 36 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 2001–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,630
  • Highest: 1 in 3,630 boys born in 2015 were named Layton (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,531 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 33.1% of all boys named Layton (4,027) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s10#866 (1881)#888
1890s13#826 (1896)#953
1900s32#866 (1907)#1,164
1910s267#949 (1918)#1,136
1920s381#984 (1924)#1,180
1930s325#972 (1936)#1,187
1940s337#971 (1945)#1,204
1950s291#1,261 (1951)#1,433
1960s244#1,255 (1963)#1,646
1970s196#1,889 (1970)#2,205
1980s318#1,590 (1989)#1,912
1990s862#1,105 (1998)#1,304
2000s2,317#683 (2009)#851
2010s4,027#541 (2015)#638
2020s2,536#611 (2023)#650

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.

Layton in 1907

boys
#866
10 births · 1 in 14,683 boys

Top boys' names in 1907

  1. #1John8,983
  2. #2William6,904
  3. #3James6,707
  4. #4George4,445
  5. #5Robert4,020
  6. #6Charles3,884
  7. #7Joseph3,844
  8. #8Frank2,943
  9. #9Edward2,576
  10. #10Henry2,203
  11. #866Layton10
More about 1907

boys

146,826 boys got a published name in 1907; 1 in 14,683 of them was named Layton, which outranked 44.1% of the 1,549 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Layton
  1. #815Woodrow11
  2. #815Wylie11
  3. #815Zollie11
  4. #866Layton10
  5. #866Abel10
  6. #866Addie10
  7. #866Adolfo10
  8. #930Almon9
  9. #930Alvah9
  10. #930Americo9

Tied with 63 names at #866; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1906
Risers
  1. ↑ 518Leamon#1,253 → #735
  2. ↑ 518Price#1,253 → #735
  3. ↑ 495Quincy#1,111 → #616
  4. ↑ 477Irene#1,111 → #634
  5. ↑ 477Mitchel#1,111 → #634
Fallers
  1. ↓ 636Norval#709 → #1,345
  2. ↓ 593Harper#752 → #1,345
  3. ↓ 560Barton#640 → #1,200
  4. ↓ 547Hurley#798 → #1,345
  5. ↓ 547Lawton#798 → #1,345

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1907 →