Leyton
Leyton is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 56 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,504 among girls’ names and #2,436 among boys’, #3,897 among all names counting both); 2,972 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,940 Americans named Leyton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leyton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leyton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Leyton is “a unisex given name, sometimes regarded as a variant of Leighton.” Its etymology gives the sense “enclosure; settlement, town” (tūn).
From the name of the River Lea + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Luton.
/ˈleɪtən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leyton?
#2,436 among boys’ names, 2025
Leyton fell from #1,449 in 2015 to #2,436 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 61.0 to 32.8 per million.
169 babies in 2010, the peak
Leyton peaked in 2010, when 169 babies were given it (144 boys, #1,230 among boys’ names). The 87 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,504 | 56 | #2,436 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,539 | 65 | #2,223 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,077 | 52 | #2,567 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,873 | 67 | #2,182 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,860 | 82 | #1,879 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,252 | 82 | #1,824 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,539 | 86 | #1,799 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,990 | 102 | #1,613 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,694 | 81 | #1,838 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,569 | 117 | #1,475 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,608 | 117 | #1,449 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,105 | 131 | #1,332 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,233 | 115 | #1,442 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,032 | 109 | #1,485 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,291 | 134 | #1,284 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,525 | 144 | #1,230 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,028 | 120 | #1,411 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,599 | 107 | #1,520 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,290 | 130 | #1,320 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,085 | 126 | #1,313 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,851 | 114 | #1,328 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,362 | 79 | #1,641 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,926 | 84 | #1,529 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 74 | #1,627 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 48 | #2,169 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 30 | #2,957 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 16 | #4,464 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 20 | #3,656 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #7,005 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,299 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,725 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 11 | #5,299 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,288 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,275 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,352 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,412 |
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 Leyton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,972 Americans recorded as Leyton, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Leyton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leyton, and how old are they?
2,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,972 Americans ever recorded as Leyton. The median Leyton alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,366 people named Leyton (303 women and girls, 2,063 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,436 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,430 |
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 Leyton born?
The states with the most babies named Leyton are Texas, Minnesota and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 269 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 76 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 71 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 70 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 67 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 51 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Leyton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,770 babies since 1880, Leyton is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 98 babies (89%), again the 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 Leyton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Amauri | 2,885 |
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 Leyton and names like it
- Compare Leyton and LleytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLeyton peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leyton since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Leyton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leyton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.