Kreighton

#7,980 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kreighton has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #7,980 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kreighton, 2025

1 in 332,000

Kreighton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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
#7,980
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kreighton 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kreighton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kreightons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kreighton was born before 2018 — so the typical Kreighton is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
89
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Choose a decade

2010s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Kreighton 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
+3,764
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,401
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,518
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2013 (10)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,853
2013

Spellings of Kreighton

Kreighton is not the most common spelling — Leighton is, with 57.8% against Kreighton's 0.55%.

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.

Kreighton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,980
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,401
Best rank ever
#7,853
2013
Peak year
2013
10 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
89
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Kreighton

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

Sibling names for Kreighton

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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