Meaning not yet researched.
Layden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,767 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,767 in 2012; #4,480 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Layden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,480 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,767.
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Layden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,767 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 85 (2012).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Layden, making it the 4,480th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,167 places from #3,313 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 36 boys named Layden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,767, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #1,992 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layden in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 8 babies. In all, 1,205 US babies have been given the name, 6.1% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 678 babies named Layden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 433 US boys were named Layden; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ladon, Ladean and Laiden 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: Ladon (1,583), Ladean (573), Laiden (358), Ladene (220), Ladan (217), Laydon (115), Laden (110), Lauden (10), Laudan (5), Laidyn (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 Layden 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 | #4,480 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,489 | 36 | #3,313 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,679 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,666 | 46 | #2,816 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,800 |
| 2020 | — | — | 53 | #2,453 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,805 | 53 | #2,510 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,775 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,312 | 53 | #2,437 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,723 | 49 | #2,578 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,580 | 73 | #1,992 |
| 2014 | — | — | 68 | #2,074 |
| 2013 | — | — | 68 | #2,012 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,119 | 85 | #1,767 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,371 | 73 | #1,916 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,108 | 68 | #2,028 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,365 | 47 | #2,645 |
| 2008 | — | — | 54 | #2,397 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,257 | 39 | #3,003 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,068 | 36 | #3,062 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,137 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,202 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,948 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,408 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,568 |
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).