Boys' name · since 1999
Slayter
Slayter has 191 recorded births since 1999 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #13,252 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #4,981 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 191
- born since 1999
- 2020s
- peak decade
Slayter currently ranks #4981 among boys' names in America, with 191 babies recorded since 1999.
Social Security Administration records show Slayter recorded 191 times among boys since 1999, holding rank #4981 nationally today, ahead of 64% of boys, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2025.
- #13,252 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #4,981 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 191 born since 1999
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Slayter ranks #13,252 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,981 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 191 born since 1999, peaking in the 2020s.
- #13,252 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #4,981 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 191
- born since 1999
- 2020s
- peak decade
Slayter's 191 recorded births place it above 70.85% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Slayter compares
191 37th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Slayter's all-time total is 48% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Slayter | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 191 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 20 | 34 | 22,252 |
Slayter's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Slayter's full recorded timeline at 2016, 68% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 32% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1999, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 20 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Slayter popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Slayter by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (85 births, 45% of the file).
2020s was Slayter's strongest decade.
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.
Slayter births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 22
2000s
22 births
- 2010s
2010s
79 births
- 2020s
2020s
85 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 85 births (45% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1999–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Slayter draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.