Kipton

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 88 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
88
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Kipton by the numbers

Kipton was given to 88 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 127 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Kipton

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 Kipton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kiptyn36 in the US (2017)
  • Kypton8 in the US (2017)
  • Koltoncoal settlement; a form of Colton679 in the US (2017)
  • 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)

Names about as common as Kipton

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