In 2025, 7 US girls were named Paetyn, making it the 12,857th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,542 places from #8,315 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 13 girls named Paetyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,138, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #2,838 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paetyn in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 1,098 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 605 babies named Paetyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 339 US girls were named Paetyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Payton (84,784 babies since 1880), Paityn (6,338 babies since 1880), Payten (3,975 babies since 1880) and Patton (1,763 babies since 1880).