Meaning not yet researched.
Payden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,928 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,928 in 2008; #7,549 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Payden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,549 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,928.
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Payden: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,928 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 75 (2008).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Payden, making it the 7,549th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,151 places from #6,398 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 14 boys named Payden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,928, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #3,010 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Payden, making it the 14,505th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,601 places from #10,904 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 girls named Payden in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,036, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #4,947 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Payden in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 17 babies. In all, 2,044 US babies have been given the name, 34% of them girls and 66% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 742 babies named Payden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 188 US boys were named Payden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Paden (1,981 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paiden, Paydon and Paidyn 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: Paiden (264), Paydon (120), Paidyn (63), Paedyn (37), Paydin (6), Padyn (5), Padon (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 Payden 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 | 6 | #14,505 | 11 | #7,549 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,904 | 14 | #6,398 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,459 | 10 | #8,107 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,971 | 19 | #5,171 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,927 | 23 | #4,457 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,691 | 27 | #3,894 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,496 | 14 | #6,326 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,055 | 21 | #4,702 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,742 | 21 | #4,702 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,140 | 28 | #3,865 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,947 | 39 | #3,010 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,136 | 38 | #3,023 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,515 | 39 | #2,937 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,196 | 51 | #2,474 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,706 | 48 | #2,579 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,191 | 63 | #2,137 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,036 | 64 | #2,137 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,255 | 75 | #1,928 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,272 | 51 | #2,496 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,541 | 56 | #2,272 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,562 | 45 | #2,519 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,312 | 48 | #2,369 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,365 | 33 | #2,978 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,065 | 41 | #2,461 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,549 | 40 | #2,467 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,724 | 24 | #3,504 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,598 | 29 | #2,920 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,001 | 32 | #2,635 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,728 | 32 | #2,535 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,466 | 40 | #2,134 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,251 | 24 | #3,001 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,612 | 39 | #2,111 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,528 | 33 | #2,331 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,203 | 18 | #3,571 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,215 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,476 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,527 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,575 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,255 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,974 |
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).