In 2025, 31 US boys were named Paxtyn, making it the 3,637th most common boys’ name of the year, up 233 places from #3,870 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 29 boys named Paxtyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,837, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #3,345 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Paxtyn, making it the 5,518th most common girls’ name of the year, up 404 places from #5,922 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 21 girls named Paxtyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,660, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 42. For comparison, it was #4,689 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paxtyn in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 970 US babies have been given the name, 49% of them girls and 51% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 545 babies named Paxtyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 324 US boys were named Paxtyn; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Paxton (30,318 babies since 1880).