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Drayton

#2,612 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Drayton has been given to 2,063 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,612 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Drayton, 2025

1 in 66,300

Drayton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Drayton: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Drayton means

Drayton is a given name.

The naming story behind Drayton

Wikidata records Drayton as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q107636832, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,063 boys were recorded with the name Drayton between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,866 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,290 in 2020 to #2,612 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,873 in 2015 to #2,612 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Drayton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,612
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Drayton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drayton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Draytons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Drayton was born before 2004 — so the typical Drayton is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,874
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (560).

Is Drayton 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
+676
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+678
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+261
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.1%
Peak was 2012 (78)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,866
2012

Spellings of Drayton

Drayton is not the most common spelling — Clayton is, with 24.2% against Drayton's 0.36%.

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.

Where Drayton is used

Across 1910–2025, Drayton was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 143,639 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 11,111
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Kansas1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Drayton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Drayton around the world

Where Drayton 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.

  • England & Wales
    2021–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Drayton by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,612
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 678
Best rank ever
#1,866
2012
Peak year
2012
78 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,063
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Drayton

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DraxtonDraydenDraysonChaytonBraytonDrayvenCashtonColetonBrextonKlaytonTreytonQuentonTrestonColstonBrystonDracoBrettonGraftonDraidenFentonJaxstonBrixtonRalstonWinton

Names with a curve like Drayton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Drayton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KamilAntoniAlenKrishnaWillemNahumYonatanTyrenObedKalaniDmitriKamran

Sibling names for Drayton

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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