Layden
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to boys 93.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 85 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,131since 1999
Layden over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,396 | 23 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,793 | 46 |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,437 | 53 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | — | #2,748 | 44 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,417 | 53 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | — | #2,063 | 68 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,009 | 68 | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #1,756 | 85 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,905 | 73 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #2,623 | 47 |
| 2008 | — | #2,374 | 54 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,129 | 21 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Layden! It came in at #7,139, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2001, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Layden
- 1,124 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #4,396)
- 1,959 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #4,396)
- 2,413 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2012 at #1,756 (85 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,317 boys born in 2012 were named Layden (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 56.1% of all boys named Layden (634) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 8 | #7,139 (1999) | #7,139 |
| 2000s | 255 | #2,374 (2008) | #3,761 |
| 2010s | 634 | #1,756 (2012) | #2,193 |
| 2020s | 234 | #2,437 (2020) | #3,217 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Layden in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 240,019 of them was named Layden, which outranked 38.5% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,530Zenas9
- #6,530Zephan9
- #6,530Ziare9
- #7,139Layden8
- #7,139Abby8
- #7,139Abdou8
- #7,139Abelino8
- #7,874Abad7
- #7,874Abbott7
- #7,874Abdalla7
Tied with 734 names at #7,139; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.