Lawton

Boys’ name Recorded 1889-2025

Lawton was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,279 among boys’ names; 2,866 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 1,730 Americans named Lawton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 12 and 54.

Babies named Lawton each year, first recorded in 1889

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Lawton or Fenton Names of the 2020s Names in Georgia

Births of Lawton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Lawton mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Lawton is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “hill, ound” (hlāw) and “homestead” (tūn).

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English [Term?], from hlāw (“hill, ound”) + tūn (“homestead”) (-ton).

/ˈlɔːtən/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Lawton (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Lawton?

#3,279 among boys’ names, 2025

Lawton fell from #3,125 in 2015 to #3,279 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 21.1 per million.

53 babies in 2021, the peak

Lawton peaked in 2021, when 53 babies were given it (48 boys, #2,679 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.

Lawton by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 boys
2025	36	#3,279	0.02
2024	38	#3,193	0.02
2023	39	#3,153	0.02
2022	28	#3,945	0.02
2021	48	#2,679	0.03
2020	43	#2,824	0.02
2019	37	#3,168	0.02
2018	39	#3,029	0.02
2017	45	#2,740	0.02
2016	32	#3,489	0.02

Every recorded year (129)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 boys
2015	37	#3,125	0.02
2014	36	#3,134	0.02
2013	34	#3,239	0.02
2012	26	#3,959	0.01
2011	39	#2,973	0.02
2010	30	#3,594	0.02
2009	36	#3,198	0.02
2008	27	#3,882	0.01
2007	33	#3,352	0.02
2006	36	#3,060	0.02
2005	33	#3,132	0.02
2004	22	#4,078	0.01
2003	42	#2,489	0.02
2002	31	#2,986	0.02
2001	24	#3,575	0.01
2000	29	#3,038	0.01
1999	31	#2,768	0.02
1998	28	#2,894	0.01
1997	18	#3,818	0.01
1996	21	#3,349	0.01
1995	17	#3,776	0.01
1994	15	#4,202	0.01
1993	25	#2,829	0.01
1992	21	#3,163	0.01
1991	12	#4,640	0.01
1990	16	#3,701	0.01
1989	9	#5,416	under 0.01
1988	21	#2,730	0.01
1987	21	#2,605	0.01
1986	5	#7,355	under 0.01
1985	12	#3,708	0.01
1984	17	#2,767	0.01
1983	8	#4,732	under 0.01
1982	11	#3,834	0.01
1981	11	#3,751	0.01
1980	13	#3,357	0.01
1979	11	#3,714	0.01
1978	19	#2,436	0.01
1977	13	#3,130	0.01
1976	15	#2,769	0.01
1975	7	#4,590	under 0.01
1974	8	#4,035	0.01
1973	13	#2,796	0.01
1972	16	#2,379	0.01
1971	13	#2,753	0.01
1970	12	#2,811	0.01
1969	17	#2,093	0.01
1968	14	#2,257	0.01
1967	15	#2,090	0.01
1966	17	#1,931	0.01
1965	15	#2,130	0.01
1964	22	#1,716	0.01
1963	15	#2,163	0.01
1962	16	#2,087	0.01
1961	19	#1,917	0.01
1960	16	#2,087	0.01
1959	13	#2,362	0.01
1958	18	#1,932	0.01
1957	23	#1,698	0.01
1956	28	#1,498	0.01
1955	28	#1,471	0.01
1954	31	#1,372	0.02
1953	25	#1,539	0.01
1952	29	#1,422	0.01
1951	15	#2,014	0.01
1950	21	#1,636	0.01
1949	21	#1,645	0.01
1948	17	#1,858	0.01
1947	16	#1,957	0.01
1946	20	#1,621	0.01
1945	17	#1,666	0.01
1944	23	#1,420	0.02
1943	22	#1,511	0.02
1942	22	#1,514	0.02
1941	24	#1,393	0.02
1940	24	#1,384	0.02
1939	23	#1,412	0.02
1938	27	#1,298	0.02
1937	32	#1,173	0.03
1936	19	#1,571	0.02
1935	28	#1,284	0.03
1934	17	#1,760	0.02
1933	25	#1,348	0.03
1932	24	#1,447	0.02
1931	28	#1,320	0.03
1930	28	#1,380	0.03
1929	28	#1,360	0.03
1928	38	#1,157	0.03
1927	24	#1,581	0.02
1926	33	#1,270	0.03
1925	26	#1,479	0.02
1924	35	#1,235	0.03
1923	34	#1,247	0.03
1922	33	#1,272	0.03
1921	35	#1,245	0.03
1920	41	#1,113	0.04
1919	25	#1,469	0.03
1918	28	#1,363	0.03
1917	31	#1,231	0.03
1916	36	#1,087	0.04
1915	25	#1,359	0.03
1914	32	#993	0.05
1913	16	#1,351	0.03
1912	12	#1,484	0.03
1911	8	#1,341	0.04
1910	5	#1,738	0.03
1907	5	#1,455	0.03
1906	10	#828	0.08
1905	7	#1,040	0.05
1904	13	#668	0.10
1903	7	#965	0.06
1902	9	#830	0.07
1901	9	#754	0.08
1900	7	#1,115	0.05
1899	11	#642	0.10
1898	7	#948	0.06
1897	7	#896	0.06
1891	5	#1,051	0.05
1889	6	#933	0.05

Download Lawton’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Lawton a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Lawton has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 129 years of records.

Girls and boys named Lawton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Lawton, and how old are they?

1,730 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 60% of the 2,866 Americans ever recorded as Lawton. The median Lawton alive today is 25 years old; half are between 12 and 54.

The 2020 Census counted 1,558 people named Lawton (49 women and girls, 1,509 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-1091

90-9916

80-8974

70-79142

60-69133

50-59114

40-49111

30-39171

20-29 (median)288

10-19327

0-9351

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	80
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	258
Generation X	1965-1980	192
Millennials	1981-1996	230
Generation Z	1997-2012	477
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	493

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 Lawton born?

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
State	Births 2025	Rank, boys	vs. national
Georgia	7	#1,176	4.8×
Florida	6	#1,759	0.4×

Where Lawton is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Lawton is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Georgia4.77×

South Carolina2.20×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Lawton 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 Lawton

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1880-2025
Fenton	2,046
Coy	18,214
Grady	53,215
Frazier	2,159
Eston	2,006
Acie	2,143

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 Lawton and names like it

Compare Lawton and FentonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 2020sLawton peaked in 2021.
Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lawton since 1910.
From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Lawton: every such name, by how often it is given.
The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Lawton.
The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lawton alive today were born 2013-2025.
Names starting with LMost given first.

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