Paxton

#3,211 for girls in 2025, 49 births · #338 for boys in 2025, 988 births
Given to boys 93.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2016 · 1,993 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
28,194
since 1921

Paxton over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201921peak #1,285, 1994peak #203, 2016girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,21149#338988
2024#3,17650#2881,170
2023#2,67465#2571,357
2022#2,19386#2571,350
2021#2,36676#2551,392
2020#2,37674#2621,301
2019#2,21783#2521,450
2018#2,15987#2211,694
2017#2,05395#2071,909
2016#2,12991#2031,993
2015#2,59069#2291,677
2014#2,84360#2601,432
2013#3,04254#2621,356
2012#3,36448#2421,496
2011#3,09254#2721,287
2010#3,01056#2961,110
2009#3,67743#327979
2008#3,47847#419697
2007#4,13137#565456
2006#3,61743#776267
2005#4,37331#870211
2004#3,33345#878197
2003#2,67359#942174
2002#2,81953#842197
2001#3,19843#950162
2000#2,27768#942161
1999#2,11572#896168
1998#2,53054#916156
1997#1,91476#937144
1996#1,89876#1,22691
1995#2,08365#1,17297
1994#1,285132#1,104104
1993#2,67645#1,33373
1992#4,38223#1,39566
1991#5,94915#1,82343
1990—#3,46717
1989—#1,95337
1988—#2,36725
1987—#2,94217
1986—#2,29024
1985—#2,42721
1984—#2,52919
1983—#2,57718
1982—#2,59618
1981—#2,49619
1980—#2,36721
1979—#2,46519
1978—#2,47318
1977—#2,00824
1976—#1,87326
1975—#2,13421
1974—#1,47135
1973—#1,31240
1972—#1,19647
1971—#1,10954
1970—#1,19248
1969—#1,52628
1968—#2,73510
1967—#2,35212
1966—#2,32712
1965—#3,2447
1964—#2,54611
1963—#3,0448
1962—#2,50411
1961—#1,94818
1960—#3,3377
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1955—#3,8865
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1948—#3,6685
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First appearance
1921

The first year at least five boys were named Paxton! It came in at #3,517, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1922, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Paxton is popular in 1921

No state had 5 or more boys named Paxton in 1921, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Paxton
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 50 spots since 2024 (#288 → #338)
  • 76 spots since 2020 (#262 → #338)
  • 109 spots since 2015 (#229 → #338)
  • Biggest jump: 289 spots in 1997 (#1,226 → #937)
  • Biggest drop: 100 spots in 2003 (#842 → #942)
Rise & fade · boys
95 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1921
  • Peaked 2016 at #203 (1,993 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 29 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 952
  • Highest: 1 in 952 boys born in 2016 were named Paxton (0.11%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,729 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 54.6% of all boys named Paxton (15,404) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1995
  • Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s33#3,175 (1923)#3,618
1930s16#3,390 (1931)#3,523
1940s20#2,671 (1947)#3,212
1950s28#2,642 (1958)#3,308
1960s124#1,526 (1969)#2,556
1970s332#1,109 (1971)#1,723
1980s219#1,953 (1989)#2,454
1990s959#896 (1999)#1,427
2000s3,501#327 (2009)#751
2010s15,404#203 (2016)#244
2020s7,558#255 (2021)#276

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Paxton in 1921

boys
#3,517
7 births · 1 in 157,350 boys

Top boys' names in 1921

  1. #1John58,216
  2. #2Robert52,779
  3. #3William51,862
  4. #4James49,750
  5. #5Charles29,242
  6. #6George27,476
  7. #7Joseph26,182
  8. #8Edward20,817
  9. #9Frank16,705
  10. #10Richard16,376
  11. #3,517Paxton7
More about 1921

boys

1,101,449 boys got a published name in 1921; 1 in 157,350 of them was named Paxton, which outranked 29.4% of the 4,985 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Paxton
  1. #3,214York8
  2. #3,214Ysabel8
  3. #3,214Zenas8
  4. #3,517Paxton7
  5. #3,517Ab7
  6. #3,517Abron7
  7. #3,517Ac7
  8. #3,869Abb6
  9. #3,869Acey6
  10. #3,869Adair6

Tied with 351 names at #3,517; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1920
Risers
  1. ↑ 828Kevin#1,543 → #715
  2. ↑ 499Enrico#1,157 → #658
  3. ↑ 435Richmond#1,225 → #790
  4. ↑ 427Reynaldo#1,252 → #825
  5. ↑ 425Art#1,416 → #991
Fallers
  1. ↓ 391Stacy#835 → #1,226
  2. ↓ 279Gorden#947 → #1,226
  3. ↓ 248Brady#653 → #901
  4. ↓ 246Guillermo#812 → #1,058
  5. ↓ 219Lindsay#903 → #1,122

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1921 →