Clayten
Clayten was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,773 among boys’ names; 267 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clayten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Clayten?
#7,773 among boys’ names, 2025
Clayten fell from #7,152 in 2015 to #7,773 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 5.9 per million.
18 babies in 2008, the peak
Clayten peaked in 2008, when 18 boys were given it, #5,096 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,773 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,690 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,482 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,764 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,333 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,526 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,009 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,152 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,256 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,996 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #6,376 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,306 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,522 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,874 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,096 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,692 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,157 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,072 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,198 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,323 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,764 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,081 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,330 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,998 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,957 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,118 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Clayten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clayten has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clayten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clayten, and how old are they?
An estimated 263 Americans named Clayten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 244 people named Clayten (3 women and girls, 241 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 239 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 143,411 babies since 1880, Clayten is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,235 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clayten
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 Clayten and names like it
- Compare Clayten and ClaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sClayten peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clayten since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Clayten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Clayten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.