Klayten
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KLAY-ton
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Klayten is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “settlement on clay”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Klayten mean?
English: spelling of Clayton; English place name and surname
“settlement on clay”
A surname from several English villages called Clayton, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Sussex and elsewhere.
Meaning borrowed from Clayton. More on Wiktionary.
Is Klayten a girl's or a boy's name?
Klayten is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Klayten in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 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, 6 boys in the US were named Klayten, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the boys named Klayten in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,235 boys in the US were given Klayten or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #290, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
Klayten in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
Nicknames for Klayten
- Clay 43 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Klayten
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden Deacon Raiden Aiden Brayden Boden Braylen Cannon Kian Rayden Ocean Declan
Other spellings of Klayten
Names related to Klayten
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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, “Klayten: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/klayten, updated 20 October 2026.