Layton
83
Babies in 2024
-74%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 360
-6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Layton
Layton has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 83 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 74% on a decade earlier.
Layton reached its peak in 2012, when 360 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #163 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 23% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,750 boys have been officially registered with the name Layton in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,925 boys were registered with the name, starting from 321 in 2014 and ending at 83 in 2024.