Leyton
- #4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births
- #2,421 for boys in 2025, 56 births
- Given to boys 85.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 144 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,543since 1961
Leyton over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1961, 5 boys in 1971 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 | #2,421 | 56 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #2,210 | 65 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #2,541 | 52 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #1,870 | 82 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | #1,790 | 86 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | #1,606 | 102 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #1,829 | 81 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #1,467 | 117 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #1,444 | 117 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 | #1,329 | 131 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | #1,433 | 115 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #1,478 | 109 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #1,279 | 134 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #1,228 | 144 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #1,409 | 120 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #1,516 | 107 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,317 | 130 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #1,306 | 126 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #1,323 | 114 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #1,529 | 84 |
| 2002 | — | #1,620 | 74 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,151 | 48 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,922 | 30 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,341 | 16 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Leyton! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Leyton is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Leyton in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Leyton
- 606 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #2,421)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2010 at #1,228 (144 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,324 boys born in 2010 were named Leyton (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,501 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.7% of all boys named Leyton (1,136) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,065 (1961) | #4,065 |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,907 (1971) | #4,907 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 81 | #3,597 (1998) | #6,221 |
| 2000s | 912 | #1,306 (2006) | #1,672 |
| 2010s | 1,136 | #1,228 (2010) | #1,488 |
| 2020s | 404 | #1,815 (2020) | #2,171 |
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.
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