girls:
71 births since 2006
#5645 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1920
#3443 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1920
#6508 (16th percentile)
The name Haydon is the #6,508 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,232 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 15.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,443 (24.9% percentile) for all time with 1,161 births since 1920. For girls, it ranks #5,645 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 71 births since 2006.
Haydon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Haydon is available in 37 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (37 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Haydon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Haydon reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 10.1% percentile (ranked #794) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 42 births per million (ranked 10.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Haydon ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 12.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Haydon reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #956) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Haydon".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Haydon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Haydon is pronounced as HAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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