Lawton — #3154 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lawton

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,825 babies named Lawton between 1889 and 2024, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lawton currently holds the #3154 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 48 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lawton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 355 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lawton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 395 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lawton in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lawton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,825 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.