Meaning not yet researched.
Paxton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 988 in 2025. Its best rank was #203 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #203 in 2016; #338 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Paxton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#338 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #203.
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Paxton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 988 boys in 2025. Peak: #203 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 1,993 (2016).
In 2025, 988 US boys were named Paxton, making it the 338th most common boys’ name of the year, down 50 places from #288 in 2024. That is 182 fewer than the 1,170 boys named Paxton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #203, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,993. For comparison, it was #229 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paxton in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 7 babies. In all, 30,318 US babies have been given the name, 7.0% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 16,101 babies named Paxton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,604 US boys were named Paxton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,993. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,729 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paxton ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #103 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Paxtyn (970 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paxten, Paxtin and Paxston 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: Paxten (335), Paxtin (68), Paxston (20), Paxtynn (5).
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 Paxton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 10 | #103 | #131 |
| Kentucky | 37 | #148 | #133 |
| Mississippi | 16 | #198 | #172 |
| Oklahoma | 25 | #199 | #162 |
| South Carolina | 28 | #205 | #201 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #214 | #239 |
| Iowa | 19 | #216 | #159 |
| Maine | 6 | #227 | #212 |
| Louisiana | 23 | #229 | #194 |
| Idaho | 12 | #229 | #150 |
| Tennessee | 38 | #235 | #141 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #238 | #133 |
| Washington | 33 | #240 | #169 |
| Arkansas | 15 | #245 | #144 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #246 | #101 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #255 | #176 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #259 | — |
| Indiana | 32 | #264 | #183 |
| Ohio | 47 | #268 | #157 |
| Montana | 5 | #271 | #277 |
| Utah | 19 | #273 | #160 |
| Kansas | 14 | #275 | #98 |
| Alabama | 20 | #282 | #154 |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #284 | #242 |
| Illinois | 35 | #311 | #272 |
| North Carolina | 39 | #314 | #196 |
| Missouri | 21 | #323 | #149 |
| Maryland | 17 | #325 | #304 |
| Arizona | 23 | #341 | #360 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #349 | #305 |
| Virginia | 22 | #377 | #257 |
| Michigan | 23 | #388 | #250 |
| Georgia | 29 | #403 | #234 |
| Florida | 47 | #419 | #281 |
| Texas | 82 | #423 | #282 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #442 | #217 |
| Colorado | 12 | #490 | #189 |
| California | 61 | #506 | #368 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #544 | #279 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #554 | #435 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #559 | #198 |
| Oregon | 6 | #580 | #176 |
| New York | 25 | #614 | #520 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #638 | #611 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,239 | 988 | #338 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,214 | 1,170 | #288 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,695 | 1,357 | #257 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,204 | 1,350 | #257 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,380 | 1,392 | #256 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,392 | 1,301 | #262 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,227 | 1,450 | #252 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,175 | 1,694 | #221 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,069 | 1,909 | #207 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,144 | 1,993 | #203 |
| 2015 | 69 | #2,612 | 1,677 | #229 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,881 | 1,432 | #260 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,068 | 1,356 | #262 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,411 | 1,496 | #242 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,125 | 1,287 | #273 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,040 | 1,110 | #296 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,723 | 979 | #327 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,520 | 697 | #420 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,193 | 456 | #565 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,662 | 267 | #780 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,463 | 211 | #872 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,379 | 197 | #883 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,696 | 174 | #944 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,846 | 197 | #846 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,244 | 162 | #952 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,301 | 161 | #947 |
| 1999 | 72 | #2,124 | 168 | #897 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,559 | 156 | #917 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,924 | 144 | #940 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,911 | 91 | #1,235 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,092 | 97 | #1,181 |
| 1994 | 132 | #1,292 | 104 | #1,109 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,709 | 73 | #1,337 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,485 | 66 | #1,412 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,172 | 43 | #1,857 |
| 1990 | — | — | 17 | #3,567 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,984 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,418 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #3,041 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,342 |
| 1985 | — | — | 21 | #2,484 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,599 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,644 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,675 |
| 1981 | — | — | 19 | #2,552 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,425 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,532 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,539 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,049 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,917 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,185 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,492 |
| 1973 | — | — | 40 | #1,324 |
| 1972 | — | — | 47 | #1,206 |
| 1971 | — | — | 54 | #1,121 |
| 1970 | — | — | 48 | #1,203 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,555 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,868 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,441 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,425 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,471 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,622 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,258 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,634 |
| 1961 | — | — | 18 | #1,987 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,574 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,768 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,137 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,249 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,127 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,608 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,057 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,821 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,912 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,028 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,664 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,591 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,083 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,768 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,392 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,793 |
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).