Meaning not yet researched.
Payten: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #885 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #885 in 2009; #7,801 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Payten in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,801 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #885.
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Payten: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #885 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 310 (2009).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Payten, making it the 7,801st most common girls’ name of the year, down 622 places from #7,179 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 16 girls named Payten in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #885, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 310. For comparison, it was #1,776 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Payten in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #2,460, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #8,549 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Payten in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 21 babies. In all, 3,975 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,798 babies named Payten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 488 US girls were named Payten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 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), Patton (1,763 babies since 1880) and Paiton (1,372 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Payten 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 | 14 | #7,801 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,179 | 5 | #13,739 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,693 | 5 | #13,830 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,325 | 8 | #9,333 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,919 | 7 | #10,538 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,638 | 5 | #13,609 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,503 | 11 | #7,424 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,111 | 11 | #7,482 |
| 2015 | 118 | #1,776 | 9 | #8,549 |
| 2014 | 127 | #1,671 | 13 | #6,541 |
| 2013 | 157 | #1,439 | 25 | #4,032 |
| 2012 | 172 | #1,363 | 27 | #3,859 |
| 2011 | 255 | #995 | 33 | #3,351 |
| 2010 | 281 | #924 | 51 | #2,460 |
| 2009 | 310 | #885 | 33 | #3,385 |
| 2008 | 287 | #947 | 41 | #2,926 |
| 2007 | 156 | #1,487 | 51 | #2,497 |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,606 | 40 | #2,867 |
| 2005 | 143 | #1,477 | 35 | #2,999 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,711 | 37 | #2,832 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,665 | 27 | #3,422 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,259 | 21 | #4,009 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,898 | 24 | #3,594 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,896 | 30 | #2,974 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,334 | 18 | #4,115 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,835 | 17 | #4,146 |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,169 | 12 | #5,189 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,914 | 15 | #4,336 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,185 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,485 | 8 | #6,815 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,630 | 5 | #9,781 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,554 | 7 | #7,197 |
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).