Place of hawks or wood town
Keiton is likely a modern variant of the English surnames Keaton or Leighton. It typically derives from Old English elements meaning 'place of hawks' or 'town in the meadow'. As a contemporary coinage, it follows the popular trend of using 'ton' suffixes for masculine names.
Less common today
Keiton isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #4,424 in 1997.
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
