Meaning not yet researched.
Payton: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 701 in 2025. Its best rank was #79 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #79 in 2010; #440 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Payton in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#440 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #79.
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Payton: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 701 girls in 2025. Peak: #79 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 3,646 (2009).
In 2025, 701 US girls were named Payton, making it the 440th most common girls’ name of the year, down 59 places from #381 in 2024. That is 122 fewer than the 823 girls named Payton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #79, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,646, in 2009. For comparison, it was #153 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 109 US boys were named Payton, making it the 1,569th most common boys’ name of the year, down 50 places from #1,519 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 117 boys named Payton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #219, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,581. For comparison, it was #691 in 2015 and #3,247 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Payton in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 84,784 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 36,376 babies named Payton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,418 US girls were named Payton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,802. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Payton ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #131 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Peyton (140,602 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 Paytin, Paeton and Paytyn are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paytin (588), Paeton (527), Paytyn (495), Paiten (424), Paytan (177), Paton (87), Payeton (75), Paeyton (59), Paiyton (56), Paytton (34), Paitin (29), Paytynn (18), and more.
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 Payton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 9 | #131 | #171 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #146 | #218 |
| Delaware | 6 | #160 | #176 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #175 | #104 |
| Maine | 5 | #251 | #105 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #263 | #110 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #294 | #160 |
| Idaho | 8 | #301 | #82 |
| Michigan | 29 | #313 | #111 |
| Iowa | 11 | #317 | #136 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #319 | #125 |
| Ohio | 34 | #332 | #109 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #340 | #127 |
| Illinois | 31 | #342 | #127 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #344 | #96 |
| Kansas | 10 | #353 | #216 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #372 | #163 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #379 | #153 |
| Missouri | 16 | #383 | #110 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #394 | #93 |
| Washington | 18 | #403 | #115 |
| Arizona | 17 | #412 | #122 |
| Florida | 46 | #416 | #162 |
| Nevada | 7 | #416 | #249 |
| Oregon | 9 | #422 | #116 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #424 | #112 |
| New York | 39 | #449 | #201 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #451 | #146 |
| Utah | 8 | #528 | #143 |
| Georgia | 21 | #543 | #120 |
| Texas | 54 | #594 | #212 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #608 | #220 |
| Colorado | 9 | #622 | #237 |
| Virginia | 12 | #651 | #167 |
| Alabama | 7 | #699 | #132 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #702 | #238 |
| Maryland | 7 | #706 | #121 |
| Indiana | 9 | #712 | #219 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #755 | #134 |
| California | 39 | #786 | #305 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #841 | #120 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 701 | #440 | 109 | #1,569 |
| 2024 | 823 | #381 | 117 | #1,519 |
| 2023 | 991 | #311 | 120 | #1,494 |
| 2022 | 1,099 | #289 | 144 | #1,313 |
| 2021 | 1,168 | #267 | 154 | #1,241 |
| 2020 | 1,333 | #218 | 176 | #1,122 |
| 2019 | 1,423 | #215 | 179 | #1,105 |
| 2018 | 1,428 | #218 | 237 | #909 |
| 2017 | 1,650 | #189 | 288 | #797 |
| 2016 | 1,802 | #183 | 281 | #817 |
| 2015 | 2,117 | #153 | 365 | #691 |
| 2014 | 2,416 | #135 | 410 | #644 |
| 2013 | 2,620 | #123 | 510 | #522 |
| 2012 | 2,946 | #103 | 598 | #456 |
| 2011 | 3,153 | #95 | 720 | #396 |
| 2010 | 3,589 | #79 | 891 | #345 |
| 2009 | 3,646 | #84 | 972 | #328 |
| 2008 | 3,612 | #91 | 1,240 | #276 |
| 2007 | 2,284 | #153 | 1,231 | #279 |
| 2006 | 2,158 | #163 | 1,291 | #269 |
| 2005 | 2,184 | #158 | 1,429 | #238 |
| 2004 | 2,077 | #159 | 1,396 | #239 |
| 2003 | 1,619 | #205 | 1,268 | #261 |
| 2002 | 1,758 | #183 | 1,273 | #256 |
| 2001 | 1,983 | #164 | 1,315 | #255 |
| 2000 | 2,059 | #163 | 1,581 | #219 |
| 1999 | 1,394 | #230 | 947 | #304 |
| 1998 | 1,368 | #227 | 914 | #308 |
| 1997 | 1,336 | #224 | 684 | #363 |
| 1996 | 1,018 | #284 | 576 | #406 |
| 1995 | 638 | #408 | 400 | #511 |
| 1994 | 568 | #445 | 401 | #507 |
| 1993 | 522 | #485 | 320 | #573 |
| 1992 | 307 | #703 | 262 | #636 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,689 | 164 | #808 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,340 | 132 | #895 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,997 | 97 | #1,062 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,132 | 106 | #934 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,945 | 104 | #930 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,674 | 90 | #970 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,581 | 39 | #1,637 |
| 1984 | — | — | 43 | #1,476 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,868 | 23 | #2,255 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,494 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,923 | 22 | #2,315 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,920 | 30 | #1,899 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,838 | 25 | #2,088 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,768 | 32 | #1,711 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,715 | 13 | #3,156 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,418 | 18 | #2,482 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,148 | 15 | #2,723 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,775 | 13 | #2,906 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,295 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,953 | 19 | #2,138 |
| 1971 | — | — | 27 | #1,734 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,977 |
| 1969 | — | — | 21 | #1,848 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,946 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,607 | 17 | #1,958 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,010 | 11 | #2,582 |
| 1965 | — | — | 19 | #1,846 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,285 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,094 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,474 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,214 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,816 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,626 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,472 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,169 |
| 1956 | — | — | 19 | #1,877 |
| 1955 | — | — | 11 | #2,520 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,723 |
| 1953 | — | — | 21 | #1,699 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,825 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,466 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,247 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,427 |
| 1948 | — | — | 18 | #1,800 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,896 |
| 1946 | — | — | 22 | #1,547 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,533 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,959 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,683 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,234 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,066 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,062 |
| 1939 | — | — | 17 | #1,699 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,607 |
| 1937 | — | — | 16 | #1,812 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,412 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,698 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,362 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,070 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,436 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,076 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,414 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,074 |
| 1928 | — | — | 20 | #1,745 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #2,013 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,395 |
| 1925 | — | — | 19 | #1,857 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,114 |
| 1923 | — | — | 23 | #1,630 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,450 |
| 1921 | — | — | 18 | #1,968 |
| 1920 | — | — | 17 | #2,029 |
| 1919 | — | — | 19 | #1,794 |
| 1918 | — | — | 21 | #1,694 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,164 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,503 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,270 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,412 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,777 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,849 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,692 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,544 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,547 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,091 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,117 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #1,009 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,028 |
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).