Blayton
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Blayton by the numbers
Blayton was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 24 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Blayton
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Blayton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Braytonbroad settlement or broad town53 in the US (2017)
- Blantonsettlement on a bleak or bare hill9 in the US (2017)
- Blaydon5 in the US (2017)
- Braxtonbadger's homestead; place name3,350 in the US (2017)
- Braydonbroad hill; modern spelling of Braden338 in the US (2017)
- Braysonson of Bray; a form of Brayden218 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Blayton
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