Dayten
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- DAY-tun
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Dayten is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “ditch or dyke settlement”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Dayten mean?
English: spelling of Dayton; English surname from the place name Deighton
“ditch or dyke settlement”
Dayton, Ohio, is named after Jonathan Dayton, the youngest man to sign the US Constitution.
Meaning borrowed from Dayton.
Is Dayten a girl's or a boy's name?
Dayten is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dayten in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,675among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Dayten, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had more boys named Dayten than any year since 2016.
Half of all the boys named Dayten in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 217 boys in the US were given Dayten or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #941, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
Dayten in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,486 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,300 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,002 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,580 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,388 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,658 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,068 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,819 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,259 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,551 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,388 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,309 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,308 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
Names like Dayten
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Deacon Aiden Kayden Brayden Camden Boden Declan Hayden Raiden Dawson Cannon Jayden
Other spellings of Dayten
Names related to Dayten
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dayten: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dayten, updated 20 October 2026.