Layton
Layton is ranked 692nd among boys in 2024 (389 births). Its best rank was 541st, in 2015.
- Rank in 2024
- #692down 81 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3890.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2015528 births
- Best rank
- #541in 2015
- Since 1880
- 12,856people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,775 boys have been named Layton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 528 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 34%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,081 girls have also been given it, 8.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Layton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 13 | |
| 1900s | 32 | |
| 1910s | 267 | |
| 1920s | 381 | |
| 1930s | 325 | |
| 1940s | 337 | |
| 1950s | 291 | |
| 1960s | 244 | |
| 1970s | 196 | |
| 1980s | 318 | |
| 1990s | 862 | |
| 2000s | 2,317 | |
| 2010s | 4,026 | |
| 2020s | 2,156 |
In 2015, its biggest year
Layton was the 541st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Layton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Romeopeak 2024
- Cruzpeak 2013
- Nolanpeak 2015
- Farispeak 2017
- Holtonpeak 2021
- Holtpeak 2019
- Carverpeak 2018
- Owenpeak 2016
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.