Dayton
Dayton was given to 195 boys in 2025, #1,099 among boys’ names; 16,395 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,600 Americans named Dayton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayton?
#1,099 among boys’ names, 2025
Dayton fell from #764 in 2015 to #1,099 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.11 per 1,000.
599 babies in 2008, the peak
Dayton peaked in 2008, when 599 babies were given it (568 boys, #486 among boys’ names). The 212 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 35% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 195 | #1,099 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 175 | #1,183 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,145 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 198 | #1,094 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 198 | #1,075 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 218 | #980 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 238 | #920 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 264 | #844 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 264 | #837 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 246 | #888 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (139)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 312 | #764 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 352 | #702 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 338 | #702 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 423 | #598 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 394 | #612 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 428 | #586 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 519 | #523 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 568 | #486 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 515 | #512 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 469 | #538 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 456 | #533 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 483 | #508 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 486 | #502 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 463 | #498 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 452 | #507 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 371 | #562 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 356 | #560 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 353 | #560 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 279 | #621 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 278 | #623 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 224 | #706 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 195 | #751 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 156 | #847 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 121 | #981 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 113 | #1,009 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 137 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,182 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 54 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 49 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 51 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,464 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 52 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 44 | #1,409 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,441 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 34 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,172 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 36 | #1,426 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 37 | #1,378 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 30 | #1,470 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,368 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,232 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,263 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,211 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,314 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 29 | #1,461 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,485 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 30 | #1,470 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,230 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,233 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,116 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,235 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,130 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,139 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,315 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 55 | #968 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 57 | #939 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 52 | #973 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,105 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,030 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 53 | #955 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 56 | #940 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 47 | #987 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 50 | #902 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 49 | #910 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 59 | #871 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 56 | #882 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 49 | #908 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 44 | #968 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 72 | #701 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 48 | #914 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 62 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 60 | #789 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 58 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 51 | #882 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 62 | #776 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 72 | #736 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 67 | #761 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 57 | #875 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 59 | #861 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 60 | #856 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 72 | #775 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 69 | #786 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 90 | #672 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 81 | #737 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 86 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 77 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 76 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 86 | #693 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 88 | #660 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 85 | #675 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 69 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 65 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 71 | #693 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 49 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 42 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,005 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 13 | #937 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 15 | #788 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 10 | #882 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 9 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 6 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 6 | #959 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 9 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 7 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 10 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 13 | #573 | 0.11 |
| 1893 | 8 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 6 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 7 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 9 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 7 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 8 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 6 | #871 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 9 | #657 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 7 | #771 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 8 | #697 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,395 Americans recorded as Dayton, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 195 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dayton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayton, and how old are they?
13,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 16,395 Americans ever recorded as Dayton. The median Dayton alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 11,380 people named Dayton (528 women and girls, 10,852 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,783 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 191 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 529 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 542 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,750 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,380 |
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).
Where are babies named Dayton born?
The states with the most babies named Dayton are Texas, Michigan and Kansas, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kansas is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,074 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 11 | #688 | 1.0× |
| Kansas | 10 | #360 | 1.9× |
| Missouri | 8 | #665 | 1.7× |
| Colorado | 8 | #638 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,127 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,057 | 0.4× |
| California | 6 | #2,256 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,682 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 6 | #924 | 1.1× |
Where Dayton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dayton is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dayton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 17,234 babies since 1880, Dayton is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 212 of their 234 babies (91%), again the 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 Dayton
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 Dayton and names like it
- Compare Dayton and DaytenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayton peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayton since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dayton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.