boys:
2.8k births since 1958
#2361 (48th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1958
#5071 (34th percentile)
The name Klayton is the #5,071 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,840 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 34.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,361 (48.5% percentile) for all time with 2,840 births since 1958.
Klayton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (first recorded for boys in 1958). Birth data for Klayton is available in 54 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Klayton reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 13.2% percentile (ranked #793) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 64 births per million (ranked 13.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Klayton ranks #830 for boys (8.9% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 73.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Klayton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Klayton is pronounced as KLAY-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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