Cayton — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cayton

The Social Security Administration has registered 118 babies named Cayton between 1986 and 2017, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cayton currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Cayton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cayton performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 54 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cayton shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cayton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 118 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.