Meaning not yet researched.
Chayton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,288 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,288 in 2001; #4,423 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chayton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,423 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,288.
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Chayton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,288 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 102 (2001).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Chayton, making it the 4,423rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 82 places from #4,341 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 24 boys named Chayton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,288, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #1,915 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chayton in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 6 babies. In all, 1,892 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 772 babies named Chayton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 396 US boys were named Chayton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Chayten, Chaitan and Chaytan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chayten (24), Chaitan (6), Chaytan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chayton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,423 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,341 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,021 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,903 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,195 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,430 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,817 |
| 2018 | — | — | 60 | #2,268 |
| 2017 | — | — | 54 | #2,393 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,093 |
| 2015 | — | — | 76 | #1,915 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,733 |
| 2013 | — | — | 80 | #1,794 |
| 2012 | — | — | 87 | #1,730 |
| 2011 | — | — | 80 | #1,798 |
| 2010 | — | — | 80 | #1,819 |
| 2009 | — | — | 62 | #2,171 |
| 2008 | — | — | 62 | #2,166 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,746 |
| 2006 | — | — | 50 | #2,455 |
| 2005 | — | — | 78 | #1,713 |
| 2004 | — | — | 80 | #1,619 |
| 2003 | — | — | 90 | #1,452 |
| 2002 | — | — | 80 | #1,546 |
| 2001 | — | — | 102 | #1,288 |
| 2000 | — | — | 83 | #1,480 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,003 | 64 | #1,658 |
| 1998 | — | — | 46 | #2,042 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,172 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,039 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,113 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,936 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,781 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,614 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,413 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,323 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).