girls:
610 births since 1910
#5106 (11th percentile)
boys:
137.1k births since 1880
#244 (95th percentile)
overall:
137.7k births since 1880
#541 (93rd percentile)
The name Clayton is the #541 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 137,714 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #244 (94.7% percentile) for all time with 137,104 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,106 (10.6% percentile) for all time with 610 births since 1910.
Clayton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1910 for girls).
The name Clayton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clayton reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 81.9% percentile (ranked #148) with 1,228 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 1,228 births per million (ranked 81.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Clayton ranks #298 for boys (67.4% percentile) with 580 births per million, which is 47.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clayton reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #809) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Clayton ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 37.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clayton".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Clayton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Clayton is pronounced as KLAY-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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