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Driton

Boys' name

Variant of Dritan

Driton has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Driton, 2003

1 in 760,000

Driton over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Driton: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Dritan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Driton means

Driton is a variant of Dritan.

Origin, language, and formation

Driton is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dritan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Driton between 1987 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,263 in 1987.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Driton?

Driton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 395,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Driton 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 2003 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 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Driton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dritons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Driton was born before 1991 — so the typical Driton is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Driton 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (6)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,263
1987

Spellings of Driton

Driton is not the most common spelling — Dalton is, with 36.2% against Driton's <0.01%.

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.

Driton around the world

Where Driton 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.

  • France
    2010–2019
    #5,466
    in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Driton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,263
1987
Peak year
1991
6 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Driton

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

DristonDriverDrilonDriggsHattonStattonDristanPaxstonDrishDrissRestonDrianWenstonRiptonDrextonDritanDrizztDeatonCamptonClatonSextonMyrtonCeltonRuxton

Sibling names for Driton

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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