girls:
5 births since 2021
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1889
#2386 (48th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1889
#5108 (34th percentile)
The name Lawton is the #5,108 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,792 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 34.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,386 (47.9% percentile) for all time with 2,787 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2021.
Lawton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Lawton is available in 127 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (127 years for boys and 1 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 Lawton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lawton reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #499) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 95 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lawton ranks #877 for boys (3.7% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 22.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lawton reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lawton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lawton is pronounced as LAW-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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