Daeton
Daeton was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,912 among boys’ names; 240 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 Daeton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daeton?
#9,912 among boys’ names, 2025
Daeton rose from #10,957 in 2015 to #9,912 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.1 per million.
19 babies in 2006, the peak
Daeton peaked in 2006, when 19 boys were given it, #4,713 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,912 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,549 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,901 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,882 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,957 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,855 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,019 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,831 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,696 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,808 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 18 | #5,102 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,035 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,713 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,079 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,872 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,452 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,156 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,925 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,239 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,636 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,898 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,141 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daeton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daeton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daeton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daeton, and how old are they?
An estimated 236 Americans named Daeton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 227 people named Daeton (12 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 231 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 17,234 babies since 1880, Daeton is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 234 babies (3.0%), 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 Daeton
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 Daeton and names like it
- Compare Daeton and DaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaeton peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Daeton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daeton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.