# Dayton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dayton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,395 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15,759 / 636 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 293, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 6,398 |
| 2012 | 16 | 7,544 |
| 2013 | 27 | 5,049 |
| 2014 | 17 | 7,075 |
| 2015 | 17 | 7,060 |
| 2016 | 22 | 5,843 |
| 2017 | 11 | 9,480 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,319 |
| 2019 | 26 | 5,068 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,305 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,235 |
| 2022 | 12 | 8,658 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,346 |
| 2024 | 10 | 9,717 |
| 2025 | 17 | 6,605 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 394 | 612 |
| 2012 | 423 | 598 |
| 2013 | 338 | 702 |
| 2014 | 352 | 702 |
| 2015 | 312 | 764 |
| 2016 | 246 | 888 |
| 2017 | 264 | 837 |
| 2018 | 264 | 844 |
| 2019 | 238 | 920 |
| 2020 | 218 | 980 |
| 2021 | 198 | 1,075 |
| 2022 | 198 | 1,094 |
| 2023 | 183 | 1,145 |
| 2024 | 175 | 1,183 |
| 2025 | 195 | 1,099 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23 | 1,144 |
| 2011 | 17 | 1,398 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,229 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,462 |
| 2014 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,570 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Dayton

- Dayton Miller, American physicist (1866–1941)
- Dayton Lummis, American actor (1903-1988)
- Dayton Leroy Rogers, American serial killer
- Penn Badgley, American actor and musician (born 1986)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.