Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from places called Deighton, meaning “ditch town” in Old English, Dayton is also the name of a city in Ohio. As a given name, it became somewhat popular in the 1990s, likely because it sounds similar to names such as Peyton and Clayton.
20062006: 469 births, rank #538
2007: 515 births, rank #512
2008: 568 births, rank #486
2009: 519 births, rank #521
2010: 428 births, rank #586
20112011: 394 births, rank #612
2012: 423 births, rank #598
2013: 338 births, rank #702
2014: 352 births, rank #702
2015: 312 births, rank #764
20162016: 246 births, rank #888
2017: 264 births, rank #837
2018: 264 births, rank #844
2019: 238 births, rank #919
2020: 218 births, rank #979
20212021: 198 births, rank #1,075
2022: 198 births, rank #1,093
2023: 183 births, rank #1,144
2024: 175 births, rank #1,181
20252025: 195 births, rank #1,097
Dayton moved from #920 to #980 for boys between 2019 and 2020. Its highest annual birth count came in 2008, with 568 births.