Lawton
Masculine · “settlement by the mound”
Lawton is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,861 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Lawton is an English place name about a mound: a settlement built on or beside a hill, most often a burial mound left by people much older than the Anglo-Saxons who named it.
How old is the name Lawton?
Lawton first appears in US birth records in 1889 — 136 years ago. The typical Lawton alive today was born around 1962, making them about 63 years old. About 1,800 people named Lawton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lawton most popular?
Lawton peaked in 1899, reaching #613 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 2,627 places below that high. See the whole 1899 chart.
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Where it comes from
From hlaw tun to Lawton
The story of Lawton
Church Lawton and Buglawton in Cheshire are the best-known of the English Lawtons, and the hlaw in them is a real feature — Anglo-Saxons named settlements for the prehistoric mounds they found there and did not build. Families took the place name as a surname and carried it to America, where Lawton appears in nineteenth-century given-name records in respectable numbers before going quiet for most of the twentieth century.
Meaning
settlement by the mound
From Old English hlaw, a hill or burial mound, and tun, a farmstead or settlement; the same first element gives Ludlow and Marlow their endings.
How the name formed
- hlaw tun
- Lawton
Related forms: Laughton
Pronouncing Lawton
LAW-tuhn
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation.
Nicknames for Lawton
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1889
- Most boys named
- 201745 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #613reached in 1899
- Change vs 2022
- +28.6%36 in 2025, from 28
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lawton in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Laughton in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, South Carolina, Florida.
Lawtons among us
people named Lawton are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Lawton
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Lawton sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lawton is headed
Lawton should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lawton beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lawton in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented English place-name meaning with a real and rather old landscape behind it.
- Plain letters and an obvious pronunciation for any English speaker.
- Genuine nineteenth-century American use, so it is a revival rather than an invention.
- The Law clip is an ordinary English word and will be used for jokes.
- Layton and Lawton are close enough to be written for one another.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lawtons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Lawton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lawton in 2025?
- Lawton ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lawton?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Lawton — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lawton with classmates?
- Lawton will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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