girls:
42 births since 2007
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
363 births since 2002
#4223 (8th percentile)
overall:
405 births since 2002
#7334 (5th percentile)
The name Layten is the #7,334 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 405 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 5.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,223 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 363 births since 2002. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 2007.
Layten first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for boys and 2007 for girls).
The name Layten has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Layten were boys.
For boys, Layten reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #878) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Layten ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 69.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Layten reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #957) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Layten".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Layten is pronounced as LAY-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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