Layten
Layten was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,740 among boys’ names; 441 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Layten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Layten?
#5,740 among boys’ names, 2025
Layten fell from #3,477 in 2015 to #5,740 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 9.4 per million.
40 babies in 2015, the peak
Layten peaked in 2015, when 40 babies were given it (32 boys, #3,477 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 16 | #5,740 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,883 | 13 | #6,668 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 20 | #4,989 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,667 | 9 | #8,700 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 15 | #5,920 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,490 | 17 | #5,368 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,199 | 16 | #5,703 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 17 | #5,442 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 19 | #5,033 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,916 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,473 | 32 | #3,477 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,052 | 17 | #5,385 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 17 | #5,300 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,353 | 19 | #4,957 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 26 | #3,954 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 17 | #5,381 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 27 | #3,881 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 15 | #5,946 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,260 | 18 | #5,131 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 13 | #6,313 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 13 | #6,074 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 13 | #6,004 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,992 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #8,134 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Layten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 441 Americans recorded as Layten, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 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 Layten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Layten, and how old are they?
An estimated 437 Americans named Layten 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 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 330 people named Layten (51 women and girls, 279 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,818 babies since 1880, Layten is the second most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 483 babies (3.3%), 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 Layten
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 Layten and names like it
- Compare Layten and LaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLayten peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Layten since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Layten.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Layten alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.