Layden
Layden was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,479 among boys’ names; 1,205 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Layden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Layden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Layden?
#4,479 among boys’ names, 2025
Layden fell from #1,992 in 2015 to #4,479 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.1 to 13.5 per million.
96 babies in 2012, the peak
Layden peaked in 2012, when 96 babies were given it (85 boys, #1,766 among boys’ names). The 23 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,479 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,311 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,677 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,814 | 26.3 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,799 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 53 | #2,452 | 30.7 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,509 | 29.5 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,774 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,436 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,577 | 25.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #1,992 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,073 | 35.4 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,011 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 85 | #1,766 | 44.8 |
| 2011 | 73 | #1,915 | 38.4 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,027 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,644 | 23.7 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,396 | 26.5 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,001 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,061 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,133 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,197 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,943 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,401 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,561 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Layden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,205 Americans recorded as Layden, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Layden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Layden, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,205 Americans ever recorded as Layden. The median Layden alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 925 people named Layden (93 women and girls, 832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 966 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 524 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 670 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,371 babies since 1880, Layden is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 40 babies (58%), the most given that year.
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 Layden
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 Layden and names like it
- Compare Layden and LadonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLayden peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Layden since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Layden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Layden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.