Dayton
Dayton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 173 births. Its best rank was 486th, in 2008.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1730.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2008568 births
- Best rank
- #486in 2008
- Since 1880
- 16,181people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,562 boys have been named Dayton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 568 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 619 girls have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dayton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 45 | |
| 1890s | 80 | |
| 1900s | 54 | |
| 1910s | 518 | |
| 1920s | 756 | |
| 1930s | 609 | |
| 1940s | 509 | |
| 1950s | 453 | |
| 1960s | 339 | |
| 1970s | 386 | |
| 1980s | 590 | |
| 1990s | 2,212 | |
| 2000s | 4,782 | |
| 2010s | 3,259 | |
| 2020s | 970 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Dayton was the 486th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Dayton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Prestonpeak 2007
- Davispeak 2007
- Issacpeak 2008
- Ivanpeak 2004
- Saulpeak 2006
- Obedpeak 2005
- Justuspeak 2007
- Isacpeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.