as a Last Name
- 18,435
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Layton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lād ‘watercourse’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from lēac ‘leek’ + tūn. Compare Leighton.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,435
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Layton per capita
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