Payten
#7,799 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Payten has been given to 3,975 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #7,799 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 310 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% girls, 16% boys all-time.
Babies named Payten, 2025
1 in 237,000
Payten over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Payten over time
In 2025, Payten went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Payten?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,799
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Payten sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Payten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Paytens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Payten was born before 2009 — so the typical Payten is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 43.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,344
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (1,459).
Is Payten rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −624
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,474
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,023
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.12×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 4.5%
- Peak was 2009 (310)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.3% average annual change
Spellings of Payten
Payten is not the most common spelling — Peyton is, with 33.2% against Payten's 1.3%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Payten is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Payten was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 58,256 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 2Michigan1 in 33,333
- 3Minnesota1 in 33,333
- 4Missouri1 in 50,000
- 5Texas1 in 50,000
- 6California1 in 100,000
- 7Florida1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Where Payten is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Payten was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,033,077 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Payten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Payten around the world
Where Payten ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2000–2001#3,998in 2001
- Canada1996–2024#2,710in 2024
- South Australia1995–2011#514in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Payten by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Payten
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Payten
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Payten, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Payten
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.