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Dayton: popularity and history

Explore how often Dayton appears in published U.S. birth-name records. Counts describe recorded births, not how many people with this name are alive today.

Female records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 17 births and rank 6,605.

First published birth year
1991
Total published births, 1991–2025
636
Best annual rank
4,416 in 2002
Dayton · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.000.080.16199120082025

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Dayton · female records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
2025176,605
2024109,717
2023157,346
2022128,658
2021196,235
2020157,305
2019265,068
2018196,319
2017119,480
2016225,843
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Dayton · female records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
2025176,605
2024109,717
2023157,346
2022128,658
2021196,235
2020157,305
2019265,068
2018196,319
2017119,480
2016225,843

Male records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 195 births and rank 1,099.

First published birth year
1880
Total published births, 1880–2025
15,759
Best annual rank
486 in 2008
Dayton · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.001.392.78188019522025

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Dayton · male records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
20251951,099
20241751,183
20231831,145
20221981,094
20211981,075
2020218980
2019238920
2018264844
2017264837
2016246888
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Dayton · male records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
20251951,099
20241751,183
20231831,145
20221981,094
20211981,075
2020218980
2019238920
2018264844
2017264837
2016246888

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Alphabetical neighbors, not evidence of shared meaning, origin or popularity. Each spelling has its own recorded history.

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How to read these figures

An absent observation is not zero: small counts are withheld, and no published count may mean no births or a suppressed count. Early years are less complete. Recorded sex is a source category, not a rule about who may use a name. Annual ranks order published counts, with alphabetical tie-breaking. National and state totals need not match.

These records describe usage. They do not establish a name’s meaning, origin, ethnicity or pronunciation.