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Lawton

#3,279 in 2025Boys' name

Hill, ound + homestead

Lawton has been given to 2,866 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #3,279 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Lawton, 2025

1 in 92,100

Lawton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lawton: meaning, origin, and history

Hill, ound + homestead

surname transfer

What Lawton means

Lawton means “hill, ound + homestead”, associated with hlāw and tūn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English [Term?], from hlāw (“hill, ound”) + tūn (“homestead”) (-ton).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lawton (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lawton is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Lawton is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lawton is pronounced /ˈlɔːtən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,861 boys were recorded with the name Lawton between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 2021; its best national rank was #642 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,824 in 2020 to #3,279 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,125 in 2015 to #3,279 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Lawton between 2021 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2021; its best national rank was #16,640 in 2021.

How common is Lawton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,279
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lawton 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lawton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lawtons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lawton was born before 1965 — so the typical Lawton is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
12.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,756
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 12.4% of all recorded uses (355).

Is Lawton 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
−86
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−455
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−154
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2021 (48)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#642
1899

Spellings of Lawton

Lawton is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 22.8% against Lawton's 0.35%.

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 Lawton is used

Across 1910–2025, Lawton was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 95,671 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 12,500
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in —
  7. 7Tennessee1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Lawton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lawton around the world

Where Lawton 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
    1999–2018
    #3,959
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1959–1978
    #424
    in 1978

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lawton

People whose public names include Lawton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lawton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,279
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 455
Best rank ever
#642
1899
Peak year
2021
48 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,861
Count in 2025
36

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,640
2021
Peak year
2021
5 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lawton

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

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Names with a curve like Lawton

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

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Sibling names for Lawton

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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