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How popular is the name Clayton?

Births per year, rank history and how many Claytons are alive today.

Clayton (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 702nd in 2025 with 50 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2019, when 111 babies were given the name, the 388th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2008, with 96 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 791 in 2023 before climbing back to the 702nd place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Clayton is one spelling of a name also recorded as Klayton; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Clayton you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Claytons born in England and Wales are between 9 and 25, and there are at least 2,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Clayton - on average, only one in every 109 such rooms contains a Clayton.

How many babies are named Clayton each year?

Includes all spellings: Clayton, Klayton. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Clayton spelling rank?

Where does the Klayton spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.