Klayton
Klayton was given to 89 boys in 2025, #1,800 among boys’ names; 3,015 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,950 Americans named Klayton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Klayton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Klayton?
#1,800 among boys’ names, 2025
Klayton fell from #1,583 in 2015 to #1,800 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 53.2 to 52.1 per million.
125 babies in 2018, the peak
Klayton peaked in 2018, when 125 boys were given it, #1,403 among boys’ names. The 89 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #1,800 | 52.1 |
| 2024 | 85 | #1,889 | 49.3 |
| 2023 | 86 | #1,856 | 50.3 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,670 | 59.0 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,681 | 56.0 |
| 2020 | 73 | #1,971 | 42.3 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,444 | 67.4 |
| 2018 | 125 | #1,403 | 68.8 |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,429 | 65.4 |
| 2016 | 108 | #1,544 | 56.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 102 | #1,583 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,988 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 97 | #1,597 | 51.3 |
| 2012 | 81 | #1,822 | 42.7 |
| 2011 | 91 | #1,663 | 47.9 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,822 | 41.7 |
| 2009 | 75 | #1,916 | 37.8 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,172 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 79 | #1,841 | 38.1 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,302 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 88 | #1,576 | 44.1 |
| 2004 | 64 | #1,918 | 32.2 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,692 | 37.0 |
| 2002 | 68 | #1,713 | 35.0 |
| 2001 | 57 | #1,919 | 29.3 |
| 2000 | 76 | #1,566 | 38.7 |
| 1999 | 60 | #1,726 | 31.2 |
| 1998 | 67 | #1,576 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,681 | 31.3 |
| 1996 | 49 | #1,856 | 25.9 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,849 | 24.7 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,619 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,480 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,108 | 18.5 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,933 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,884 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,084 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,271 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,034 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,773 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,468 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,865 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,931 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,652 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,757 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,524 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,703 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,017 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,403 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,696 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,135 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,879 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,306 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,113 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,839 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,246 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Klayton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Klayton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Klayton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Klayton, and how old are they?
2,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,015 Americans ever recorded as Klayton. The median Klayton alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,108 people named Klayton (17 women and girls, 2,091 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 73 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 486 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,270 |
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 Klayton born?
The states with the most babies named Klayton are California, Washington and Kentucky, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,646 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 7 | #853 | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 6 | #672 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,298 | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | #940 | 1.8× |
Where Klayton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Klayton is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1958 it was given 1.8 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 Klayton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Klayton?
Klayton is a less common spelling of Clayton: SSA has recorded 3,015 Klayton and 139,954 Clayton since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 143,411 babies since 1880, Klayton is the second most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 89 of their 1,235 babies (7.2%), 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 Klayton
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 Klayton and names like it
- Compare Klayton and ClaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKlayton peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Klayton since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Klayton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Klayton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.