Meaning not yet researched.
Drayton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,867 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,867 in 2012; #2,612 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Drayton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,612 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,867.
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Drayton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,867 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 78 (2012).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Drayton, making it the 2,612th most common boys’ name of the year, up 678 places from #3,290 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 36 boys named Drayton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,867, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #2,874 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Drayton in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 2,063 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 560 babies named Drayton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 377 US boys were named Drayton; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Drayton ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #476 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Drayten are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Drayten (6).
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 Drayton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 10 | #476 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 50 | #2,612 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,290 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,644 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,018 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,839 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,292 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,513 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,392 |
| 2017 | — | — | 44 | #2,769 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,595 |
| 2015 | — | — | 41 | #2,874 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,320 |
| 2013 | — | — | 54 | #2,342 |
| 2012 | — | — | 78 | #1,867 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,386 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,293 |
| 2009 | — | — | 66 | #2,080 |
| 2008 | — | — | 73 | #1,954 |
| 2007 | — | — | 60 | #2,220 |
| 2006 | — | — | 55 | #2,295 |
| 2005 | — | — | 54 | #2,213 |
| 2004 | — | — | 50 | #2,289 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,913 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,518 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,127 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,950 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,363 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,906 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,034 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,083 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,311 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,406 |
| 1993 | — | — | 31 | #2,415 |
| 1992 | — | — | 21 | #3,139 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,699 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,719 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,599 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,981 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,587 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,499 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,427 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,002 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,523 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,177 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,548 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,921 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,531 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,262 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,929 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,846 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,500 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,796 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,725 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,019 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #2,943 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,393 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,819 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,119 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,107 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,846 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,911 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,411 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,745 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,760 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,099 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,083 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,638 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,601 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,971 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,528 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,568 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,145 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,079 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,716 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,266 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,444 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,202 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,767 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,948 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,585 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,904 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,263 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,251 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,414 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,479 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,495 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,691 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,316 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,428 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,377 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,933 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,324 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,644 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,942 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,837 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,008 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,299 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,981 |
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).