Meaning not yet researched.
Layton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 377 in 2025. Its best rank was #541 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #541 in 2015; #714 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Layton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#714 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #541.
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Layton: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 377 boys in 2025. Peak: #541 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 528 (2015).
In 2025, 377 US boys were named Layton, making it the 714th most common boys’ name of the year, down 21 places from #693 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 391 boys named Layton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #541, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 528. For comparison, it was #541 in 2015 and #1,454 in 1950.
In 2025, 90 US girls were named Layton, making it the 2,088th most common girls’ name of the year, down 25 places from #2,063 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 94 girls named Layton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,993, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #3,016 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layton in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 13,327 US babies have been given the name, 8.8% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,480 babies named Layton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,147 US boys were named Layton; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 481. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,531 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Layton ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #231 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Layten, Laityn and Laythan are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Layten (441), Laityn (276), Laythan (257), Lathon (96), Laythen (62), Laeton (50), Laytin (37), Laton (32), Laython (27), Laetyn (25), Laiton (23), Laiten (8), and more.
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 Layton 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 14 | #231 | #322 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #285 | #236 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #295 | #382 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #316 | — |
| Tennessee | 23 | #365 | #355 |
| Missouri | 17 | #386 | #320 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #393 | #210 |
| Indiana | 18 | #403 | #283 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #415 | #343 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #455 | #544 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #474 | #306 |
| Iowa | 7 | #475 | #244 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #490 | #464 |
| Georgia | 22 | #493 | #368 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #504 | #822 |
| Michigan | 17 | #505 | #547 |
| Arizona | 11 | #611 | #478 |
| Alabama | 7 | #659 | #668 |
| Kansas | 5 | #660 | #307 |
| Ohio | 12 | #733 | #445 |
| Utah | 5 | #764 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #772 | #737 |
| Texas | 33 | #818 | #571 |
| Virginia | 8 | #846 | #652 |
| Florida | 17 | #870 | #666 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #972 | #520 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,409 | #589 |
| California | 7 | #2,108 | #1,295 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,088 | 377 | #714 |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,063 | 391 | #693 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,993 | 457 | #612 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,379 | 437 | #636 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,199 | 437 | #633 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,270 | 437 | #621 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,415 | 481 | #581 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,228 | 384 | #659 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,891 | 328 | #730 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,682 | 418 | #636 |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,016 | 528 | #541 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,757 | 411 | #641 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,970 | 322 | #726 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,443 | 404 | #610 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,698 | 376 | #626 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,075 | 375 | #643 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,887 | 355 | #684 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,597 | 286 | #777 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,906 | 286 | #770 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,454 | 301 | #719 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,592 | 251 | #781 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,617 | 177 | #952 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,820 | 188 | #895 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,649 | 181 | #896 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,844 | 167 | #930 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,909 | 125 | #1,123 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,198 | 120 | #1,109 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,563 | 116 | #1,108 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,740 | 108 | #1,146 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,264 | 80 | #1,352 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,209 | 99 | #1,153 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,269 | 85 | #1,270 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,745 | 68 | #1,413 |
| 1992 | — | — | 84 | #1,231 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,400 | 57 | #1,541 |
| 1990 | — | — | 45 | #1,767 |
| 1989 | — | — | 50 | #1,604 |
| 1988 | — | — | 43 | #1,659 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,198 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #1,991 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,047 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,868 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,934 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,142 |
| 1981 | — | — | 32 | #1,792 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,148 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,519 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,167 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,322 |
| 1976 | — | — | 19 | #2,384 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,595 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,026 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,086 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,490 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #2,022 |
| 1970 | — | — | 22 | #1,913 |
| 1969 | — | — | 21 | #1,840 |
| 1968 | — | — | 21 | #1,764 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,876 |
| 1966 | — | — | 22 | #1,673 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,132 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,527 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,266 |
| 1962 | — | — | 28 | #1,501 |
| 1961 | — | — | 25 | #1,622 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,507 |
| 1959 | — | — | 33 | #1,376 |
| 1958 | — | — | 26 | #1,547 |
| 1957 | — | — | 34 | #1,357 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,791 |
| 1955 | — | — | 29 | #1,439 |
| 1954 | — | — | 34 | #1,302 |
| 1953 | — | — | 23 | #1,618 |
| 1952 | — | — | 32 | #1,335 |
| 1951 | — | — | 34 | #1,273 |
| 1950 | — | — | 26 | #1,454 |
| 1949 | — | — | 26 | #1,449 |
| 1948 | — | — | 34 | #1,244 |
| 1947 | — | — | 42 | #1,131 |
| 1946 | — | — | 24 | #1,456 |
| 1945 | — | — | 43 | #981 |
| 1944 | — | — | 38 | #1,078 |
| 1943 | — | — | 26 | #1,387 |
| 1942 | — | — | 39 | #1,103 |
| 1941 | — | — | 32 | #1,178 |
| 1940 | — | — | 33 | #1,171 |
| 1939 | — | — | 23 | #1,413 |
| 1938 | — | — | 40 | #1,019 |
| 1937 | — | — | 32 | #1,174 |
| 1936 | — | — | 41 | #985 |
| 1935 | — | — | 38 | #1,051 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,537 |
| 1933 | — | — | 34 | #1,137 |
| 1932 | — | — | 28 | #1,312 |
| 1931 | — | — | 35 | #1,161 |
| 1930 | — | — | 33 | #1,246 |
| 1929 | — | — | 26 | #1,432 |
| 1928 | — | — | 39 | #1,139 |
| 1927 | — | — | 41 | #1,121 |
| 1926 | — | — | 42 | #1,104 |
| 1925 | — | — | 47 | #1,004 |
| 1924 | — | — | 51 | #990 |
| 1923 | — | — | 44 | #1,079 |
| 1922 | — | — | 33 | #1,273 |
| 1921 | — | — | 29 | #1,402 |
| 1920 | — | — | 29 | #1,368 |
| 1919 | — | — | 47 | #994 |
| 1918 | — | — | 49 | #956 |
| 1917 | — | — | 34 | #1,160 |
| 1916 | — | — | 36 | #1,088 |
| 1915 | — | — | 29 | #1,231 |
| 1914 | — | — | 23 | #1,248 |
| 1913 | — | — | 25 | #1,013 |
| 1912 | — | — | 18 | #1,125 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,650 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,591 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,308 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #907 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,175 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,313 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #862 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,176 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #952 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,000 |
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).