Daiton
Daiton was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,441 among boys’ names; 178 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daiton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daiton?
#12,441 among boys’ names, 2025
Daiton entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,441 in 2025.
14 babies in 2008, the peak
Daiton peaked in 2008, when 14 boys were given it, #6,129 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,441 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,607 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,884 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,061 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,458 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,956 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,161 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,280 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,810 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,129 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #7,705 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,538 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,301 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,703 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,610 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,158 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,028 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,364 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,278 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,981 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,547 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daiton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daiton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daiton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daiton, and how old are they?
An estimated 175 Americans named Daiton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 185 people named Daiton (24 women and girls, 161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Daiton?
Daiton is a less common spelling of Dayton: SSA has recorded 178 Daiton and 16,395 Dayton since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 17,234 babies since 1880, Daiton is the fourth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 234 babies (2.1%), again the fourth 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 Daiton
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 Daiton and names like it
- Compare Daiton and DaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaiton peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Daiton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daiton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.