The LAYTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,781	1746	0.007	70
United States (1880 census)	5,168	1175	0.01	103
Change since 1880	+13613	-571	-0.003	-33
Other Countries
Australia	1,043	1581	0.006	64
United Kingdom	3,218	1943	0.007	70

Top States for LAYTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,279	2502	0.004	38
Texas	1,218	1999	0.006	58
Florida	1,175	1779	0.007	74
Pennsylvania	1,060	1359	0.009	86
Missouri	986	677	0.018	176
Top States for LAYTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	365	306	0.047	466
Utah	655	412	0.029	293
Missouri	986	677	0.018	176
Alabama	618	1212	0.014	139
West Virginia	243	1132	0.013	134

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LAYTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LAYTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LAYTON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LAYTON by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LAYTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAYTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LAYTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LAYTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	426	2.27
Mixed Race	229	1.22
Native American/Alaskan	111	0.59
Asian/Pacific	73	0.39
White (Caucasian)	16,878	89.87
Black/African American	1,065	5.67

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LAYTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LAYTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAYTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.