Leyton

Where Leyton comes from

From the name of the River Lea + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Luton.
— Wiktionary's entry for Leyton
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #4,065 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2010
    Peak, #1,228
    144 babies named Leyton — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,168.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name, sometimes regarded as a variant of Leighton.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.