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How popular is the name Dayton?

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

Dayton (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 3684th in 2025 and given to 5 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 23 babies were given the name, the 1144th most popular that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 22% of its peak. Dayton is one spelling of a name also recorded as Deighton; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Dayton you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Daytons born in England and Wales are between 10 and 19, and there are at least 340 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 Dayton - on average, only one in every 892 such rooms contains a Dayton.

How many babies are named Dayton each year?

Includes all spellings: Dayton, Deighton. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Dayton spelling rank?

Where does the Deighton 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.