Given name & surname
Leyton
“from the town near the meadow”
Leyton is a variant of Leighton. One English interpretation is “from the town near the meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Leyton is a variant of Leighton. One English interpretation is “from the town near the meadow.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Leyton is a variant of Leighton. An origin associated with Leighton is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1961. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Leyton is a variant of Leighton. The history of Leighton gives this family its wider story. Leighton’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Leyton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,972
- 2,543 boys · 429 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 169 babies
- 2025
- 87
- #2,436 for boys · #4,505 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −23%
- Easing
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 79% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 56 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,436 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 31.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 144 in 2010. It also appeared in 31 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,366 as a first name in 2020; 708 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Leyton’s family of names
Leyton has a related form in Leighton. In Greek usage, Leyton as a surname is a transliteration of Λέυτον.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Leyton
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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