Felton
Felton was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 6,593 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,030 Americans named Felton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 45 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Felton?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,212, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1948, the peak
Felton peaked in 1948, when 128 boys were given it, #593 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,212 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,823 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,140 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,037 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,195 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,082 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,879 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,986 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,004 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (130)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #7,730 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,185 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,236 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,965 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,565 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,198 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,354 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,012 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,144 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,836 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,907 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,884 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,977 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,784 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,861 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,128 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,448 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,503 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,116 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,224 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,355 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,450 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 38 | #1,924 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,049 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,134 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 39 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,570 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,426 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,464 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 45 | #1,376 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 36 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 43 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 38 | #1,398 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,130 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,143 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 58 | #1,073 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,095 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,055 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 62 | #924 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 67 | #879 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 65 | #897 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 87 | #798 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 83 | #833 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 80 | #848 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 73 | #891 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 72 | #906 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 79 | #855 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 97 | #777 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 109 | #714 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 109 | #714 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 92 | #772 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 98 | #736 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 110 | #687 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 116 | #656 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 97 | #714 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 106 | #676 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 86 | #743 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 111 | #651 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 128 | #593 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 107 | #667 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 97 | #655 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 79 | #679 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 92 | #646 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 89 | #678 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 104 | #619 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 103 | #585 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 96 | #605 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 83 | #653 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 79 | #680 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 98 | #582 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 87 | #626 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 90 | #618 | 0.09 |
| 1934 | 77 | #695 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 75 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 91 | #624 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 70 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 88 | #666 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 92 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 86 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 100 | #631 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 94 | #651 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 96 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 91 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 77 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 117 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 100 | #644 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 81 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 105 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 67 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 87 | #638 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 80 | #658 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 79 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 56 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 31 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 40 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 22 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 24 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 16 | #693 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 10 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 18 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 14 | #655 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 18 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 18 | #522 | 0.14 |
| 1903 | 10 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 10 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 9 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 8 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 11 | #675 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 8 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 7 | #855 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Felton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felton has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 130 years of records.
Girls and boys named Felton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felton, and how old are they?
3,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 6,593 Americans ever recorded as Felton. The median Felton alive today is 62 years old; half are between 45 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 2,701 people named Felton (26 women and girls, 2,675 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 313 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 727 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 455 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 226 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 102 |
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 Felton born?
The states with the most babies named Felton are Georgia, Louisiana and Texas, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 1,348 | not ranked | 7.3× |
| Louisiana | 1,293 | not ranked | 9.8× |
| Texas | 433 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 276 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 264 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 160 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 117 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 106 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 102 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Felton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Felton is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 9.8 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 Felton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Felton
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 Felton and names like it
- Compare Felton and HeywardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sFelton peaked in 1948.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Felton since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Felton.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Felton alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.