Dayton

girls:

609 births since 1991

#5107 (11th percentile)

boys:

15.4k births since 1880

#940 (80th percentile)

overall:

16k births since 1880

#2053 (73rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dayton".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
609
Peak Births
31
Peak Year
2008
First Recorded
1991
Peak Percentile
2.6%
Current Percentile
1.1%
Peak Rank
#834
Current Rank
#937
Female statistics
Total Births
15,384
Peak Births
568
Peak Year
2008
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
50.6%
Current Percentile
19.2%
Peak Rank
#200
Current Rank
#736
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Dayton

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dayton. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Dayton is pronounced as DAY-tuhn.

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100.0%
DAY-tuhn (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
D EY1 T AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Dayton. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Dayton, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DAY-uhn (2 syllables)
22 names 2.9k births
D EY1 AH0 N
DAY-thuhn (2 syllables)
4 names 1.6k births
D EY1 TH AH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D EY1 T AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.