Meaning not yet researched.
Paiton: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,944 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,944 in 2008; #11,676 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paiton in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,676 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,944.
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Paiton: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,944 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 109 (2008).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Paiton, making it the 11,676th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,407 places from #17,083 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 girls named Paiton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,944, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 109. For comparison, it was #6,655 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Paiton in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #5,189, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 18. For comparison, it was #10,339 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paiton in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 14 babies. In all, 1,372 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 718 babies named Paiton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 110 US girls were named Paiton; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 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). Rarer spellings such as Paighton are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paighton (379).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Paiton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,676 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,083 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,225 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,091 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,161 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,290 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,233 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,751 | 5 | #13,677 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,655 | 7 | #10,339 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,868 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,080 | 8 | #9,484 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,860 | 8 | #9,385 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,558 | 18 | #5,189 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,131 | 15 | #6,006 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,944 | 10 | #8,136 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,119 | 15 | #5,842 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,841 | 12 | #6,794 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,927 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,970 | 9 | #8,002 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,231 | 12 | #5,980 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,868 | 12 | #5,932 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,628 | 12 | #5,819 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,424 | 6 | #9,565 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,339 | 9 | #6,696 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,878 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,521 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,551 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).