Leyton

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Leyton: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Leyton: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #311 in 2011, and it stood at #1,322 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#311highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#898
1997	#809
1998	#1000
1999	#809
2000	#881
2001	#707
2002	#509
2003	#546
2004	#443
2005	#445
2006	#411
2007	#345
2008	#371
2009	#404
2010	#347
2011	#411
2012	#372
2013	#412
2014	#434
2015	#410
2016	#525
2017	#761
2018	#763
2019	#740
2020	#993
2021	#1023
2022	#1104
2023	#942
2024	#1322

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2021: #433 among boys in Northern Ireland, #1023 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #898 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2011–2021
Highest recorded position: #311 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2011 (recorded 2011–2021).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1322 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Leyton appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,667 births with the name.

Leyton across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Leyton's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#898 (1996)	#345 (2007)	#1322 (2024)	29 of 29	1,667 (1996–2024)	121 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#311 (2011)	#311 (2011)	#433 (2021)	5 of 11	17 (2011–2021)	4 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#605 (2013)	#550 (2014)	#550 (2014)	2 of 2	9 (2013–2014)	5 (2014)

Leyton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Leyton in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	69	4 of 10	17
2000s	635	10 of 10	64
2010sbusiest	830	10 of 10	83
2020s	133	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 83 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births fell by 29, from 74 to 45.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Leyton appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #311 in Northern Ireland in 2011.

Leyton's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1322	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#942	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1023	28	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#993	28	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#740	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#763	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#761	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#525	74	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#410	102	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#434	93	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#412	98	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#372	113	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#411	97	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#347	121	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#404	96	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#371	101	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#345	106	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#411	81	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#445	63	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#443	61	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#546	42	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#509	42	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#707	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#881	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#809	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1000	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#809	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#311	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#550	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #311, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 121 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 17 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jada · #311, 29y
Kylan · #311, 30y
Teja · #311, 24y
Lucian · #312, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cael · #311, 21y
Jada · #311, 29y
Katie-Lee · #311, 9y
Kobie · #311, 27y

Leyton was ranked #311 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2011. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Leyton and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Leyton without appearing here.

Leyton moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #881 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #707 and #1595.
Brent Compare
In 2000 they stood at #881 and #848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #707 and #1078.
Calum Compare
In 2017 they stood at #761 and #719 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #763 and #1040.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2000 they stood at #881 and #773 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #707 and #983.

Moved ahead of Leyton

Conan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #942 and #987 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1322 and #1025.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #942 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1322 and #1132.
Markus Compare
In 2023 they stood at #942 and #1108 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1322 and #1162.
Oisin Compare
In 2016 they stood at #525 and #565 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #761 and #613.

Moved the opposite way to Leyton

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Leyton

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leyton went from #898 to #1322 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #311 in Northern Ireland in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leyton

Leyton at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leyton across 3 official records

Leyton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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Leyton at a glance

Leyton across 3 official records

Leyton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Leyton

Leyton and the names beside it

Leyton moved ahead of

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