Chayton
Chayton was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,422 among boys’ names; 1,892 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Chayton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chayton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chayton?
#4,422 among boys’ names, 2025
Chayton fell from #1,915 in 2015 to #4,422 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.7 to 13.5 per million.
102 babies in 2001, the peak
Chayton peaked in 2001, when 102 boys were given it, #1,284 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,422 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,338 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,018 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,900 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,193 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,428 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,816 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,267 | 33.0 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,392 | 29.2 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,093 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #1,915 | 39.7 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,733 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 80 | #1,793 | 42.3 |
| 2012 | 87 | #1,729 | 45.9 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,797 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,818 | 41.7 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,170 | 31.3 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,165 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,746 | 41.0 |
| 2006 | 50 | #2,454 | 24.3 |
| 2005 | 78 | #1,710 | 39.1 |
| 2004 | 80 | #1,616 | 40.3 |
| 2003 | 90 | #1,450 | 45.6 |
| 2002 | 80 | #1,543 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,284 | 52.5 |
| 2000 | 83 | #1,476 | 42.3 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,655 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,039 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,169 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,034 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,108 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,930 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,775 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,606 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,406 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,315 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chayton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chayton has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chayton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chayton, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,892 Americans ever recorded as Chayton. The median Chayton alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,546 people named Chayton (47 women and girls, 1,499 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 75 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 634 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chayton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chayton and names like it
- Compare Chayton and AlexzanderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChayton peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chayton since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Chayton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chayton alive today were born 1997-2012.
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