Layton was originally a surname, derived from an English place name. The name of the town means ‘town with a leek garden’ in Old English.
Layton is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Layton isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Layton ranks 594. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Layton. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Layton.
Layton was originally a surname, derived from an English place name. The name of the town means ‘town with a leek garden’ in Old English.
Layton was a very... rare name until it became a little more popular during the 1990s.
You may not know anyone named Layton, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to men and boys named Layton. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Layton living in one state or another. If your name is Layton and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Arkansas, which has the most people named Layton relative to the population, you still have to ask 6,583 men and boys their names before you hear Layton as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Layton is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Layton and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Layton, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Yoyo
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Layton
Layton
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
Y
T
O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
Y
T
O
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Layton sounds like this:
