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Klark vs Klayton

American parents have registered 3,015 Klaytons since 1880, against 161 Klarks. Klayton is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Klark against Klayton, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Klark Klayton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 59 years in which either name was published, Klayton for 56 years and Klark for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Klark Klayton
Total US births 1613,015
Most in one year 20125
Babies in 2025 589
Estimated living today 1603,000
Median age today 815
Peak year 20232018
Best rank 5,927th boys1,401st boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th1,793rd
First recorded 19641958
Girls / boys 24 / 1370 / 3,015

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Klaytons alive today are over 15; half the Klarks are over 8. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Klark and Klayton.