Dayten
Dayten was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,790 among boys’ names; 271 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 Dayten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayten?
#7,790 among boys’ names, 2025
Dayten fell from #7,613 in 2015 to #7,790 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 5.9 per million.
21 babies in 2009, the peak
Dayten peaked in 2009, when 21 boys were given it, #4,617 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,790 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,770 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,912 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,594 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,609 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,434 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,613 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,957 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,046 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,397 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | #7,106 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,110 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,617 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,482 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,706 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,124 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,868 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,294 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,624 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,471 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,507 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,417 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,258 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,431 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,325 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayten has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayten, and how old are they?
An estimated 267 Americans named Dayten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 240 people named Dayten (28 women and girls, 212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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, Dayten is the second most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 234 babies (4.3%), again the second 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 Dayten
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 Dayten and names like it
- Compare Dayten and DaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayten peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Dayten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.