Leyton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Leighton, usually a place-name meaning ‘enclosure where leeks are grown’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leit̪on/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leyton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 486K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 14K
- ARArgentina1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,476 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Leighton, usually a place-name meaning ‘enclosure where leeks are grown’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leyton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,476 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 734 | 1 in 68K | 734 | Leyton | 37 |
| US United States | 685 | 1 in 486K | 2.1K | Leyton | 213 |
| UY Uruguay | 239 | 1 in 14K | 239 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 161 | 1 in 32K | 161 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 74 | 1 in 138K | 74 | Leyton | 13 |
1,476 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Leyton is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, person from Leyton, Essex, or see Layton/Leighton.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, perhaps a variant spelling of Leiton or Leitao (Galician), a nickname meaning ‘suckling pig’-
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A suburban area in the borough of Waltham Forest, Greater London.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of latoun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esteban Leyton Sotob. 1927CLChilean politician
- John Leytonb. 1936GBBritish actor
- Carlos Leyton Muñozb. 1952PEPeruvian politician and sociologist
- Felipe Leytonb. 1953ECEcuadorian plastic surgeon (1953-2020)
- Víctor Leytonb. 1961PEPeruvian politician
- Kevin Leyton-Brownb. 1975CACanadian computer scientist
- Katherine Leytonb. 1983CACanadian poet
- Richard Leytonb. 1987CLChilean footballer
- Geraldine Leytonb. 1989CLChilean association football player (born 1989)
- Cristian Magañab. 1991CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 734 | #5,833 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 734 | #5,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 708 | #34,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 685 | #33,343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 579 | #36,463 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 239 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 161 | #1,105 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 74 | #9,123 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leyton mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Leighton, usually a place-name meaning ‘enclosure where leeks are grown’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Leyton?
- A machine transcription gives /leit̪on/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Leyton have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Leyton, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Leyton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leyton is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leyton?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,476 people named Leyton, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leytonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Leyton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.