Layden
Layden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201285 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1999
- 1,182people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,108 boys have been named Layden in the United States since 1999, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 85 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 57%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 74 girls have also been given it, 6.3% of the total.
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Layden was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Layden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaidynpeak 2014
- Masynpeak 2012
- Jayvianpeak 2011
- Braylinpeak 2011
- Braylenpeak 2011
- Maddexpeak 2012
- Maksimpeak 2011
- Rylenpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.