Leyton
Leyton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 65 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 650.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2010144 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1961
- 2,885people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,487 boys have been named Leyton in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 144 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 46%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 398 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
By decade
In 2010, its biggest year
Leyton was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Leyton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jayveonpeak 2014
- Izayahpeak 2011
- Makhipeak 2012
- Mahkipeak 2012
- Carsenpeak 2010
- Prestynpeak 2008
- Armaanpeak 2009
- Zavionpeak 2009
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.