Layton — #691 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Layton

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,775 babies named Layton between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Layton currently holds the #691 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 528 babies received it in a single year. Layton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,081 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Layton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,026 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Layton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,190 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Layton in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Layton 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 11,775 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.