Dayten
#7,790 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dayten has been given to 271 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #7,790 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Dayten, 2025
1 in 332,000
Dayten over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dayten?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,790
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dayten sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dayten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daytens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dayten was born before 2008 — so the typical Dayten is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 271
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.9% of all recorded uses (146).
Is Dayten rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,122
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −177
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 47.6%
- Peak was 2009 (21)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Dayten
Dayten is not the most common spelling — Jayden is, with 22.3% against Dayten's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Dayten around the world
Where Dayten ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dayten by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dayten
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dayten
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.