Klayton
#1,800 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Klayton has been given to 3,015 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #1,800 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 125 recorded.
Babies named Klayton, 2025
1 in 37,200
Klayton 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Klayton?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 37,200
- 89 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 19,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,800
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 25,820 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Klayton 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 25,820 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Klayton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Klaytons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Klayton was born before 2010 — so the typical Klayton is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 33.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,015
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (998).
Is Klayton 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
- +89
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +171
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −217
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.87×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.2%
- Peak was 2018 (125)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.4% average annual change
Spellings of Klayton
Klayton is not the most common spelling — Clayton is, with 54.7% against Klayton's 1.2%.
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 Klayton is used
Across 2016–2025, Klayton was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 23,746 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Indiana1 in 8,333
- 2Missouri1 in 11,111
- 3West Virginia1 in 11,111
- 4Kentucky1 in 12,500
- 5Ohio1 in 12,500
- 6California1 in 14,286
- 7Alabama1 in 20,000
- 8Michigan1 in 20,000
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.
Klayton around the world
Where Klayton 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 & Wales1997–2025#4,275in 2025
- Scotland2014–2025#762in 2025
- Ireland2019–2019#764in 2019
- France2000–2025#3,792in 2025
- Canada1991–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia1991–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Klayton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Klayton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Klayton
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Klayton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Klayton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.