Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Lynton

#17,759 most common boys' name of all time · #46,463 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–2018

Rank among boys
#17,759
Rank overall
#46,463 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
69
Since 2016
5
Peak year
1923 #3,426
Best rank
#2,824 1936
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940196019802000

Lynton first appears in 1916. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2018 — 5 5 #12,316
1959 — 5 5 #4,283
1953 — 5 5 #4,107
1943 — 6 6 #3,465
1941 — 5 5 #3,859
1937 — 6 6 #3,445
1936 — 8 8 #2,824
1929 — 5 5 #4,346
1927 — 6 6 #4,087
1926 — 5 5 #4,577
1923 — 8 8 #3,426
1916 — 5 5 #4,434