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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Dayton

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#1,099

up +84 places

2025 births

195

up +20 births

All-time births

15,759

1% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2008
568 births
Best rank
#486
in 2008
First recorded
1880
#697 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1990
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
139 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2008568#486Peak
  2. 2009519#523
  3. 2007515#512
  4. 2003486#502
  5. 2004483#508

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #486 in 2008 · peak births 568 in 2008

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

15,759 boys · 636 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Dayton has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.