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Leyna vs Leyton

American parents have registered 2,972 Leytons since 1880, against 2,170 Leynas. Leyton is still ahead, with 87 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leyna against Leyton, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leyna Leyton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 49 years in which either name was published, Leyton for 29 years and Leyna for 20 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Leyna Leyton
Total US births 2,1702,972
Most in one year 117169
Babies in 2025 5087
Estimated living today 2,1002,900
Median age today 1613
Peak year 20062010
Best rank 1,771st girls1,228th boys
Rank in 2025 3,167th2,421st
First recorded 19781961
Girls / boys 2,170 / 0429 / 2,543

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Leynas alive today are over 16; half the Leytons are over 13. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leyna Leyton
France 6,740120
England and Wales 1071,688
Belgium 38218
Scotland 3221

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leyna and Leyton.