Keyton
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.
Keyton by the numbers
Keyton was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 48 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Keyton
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 Keyton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Keatonfrom Keaton, settlement where hawks fly496 in the US (2017)
- Kentonsettlement of the keen or royal estate133 in the US (2017)
- Keltonsettlement by the spring; a form of Kelton104 in the US (2017)
- Keystonvariant of Keystone or Kingston; settlement by the key or chest7 in the US (2017)
- Keyon102 in the US (2017)
- Keston28 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Keyton
Names that are said the same way as Keyton, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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