Payden
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Given to boys 65.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 75 births
- Debut · boys
- 17 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,343since 1986
Payden over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #4,362 | 23 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | #2,966 | 39 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 | #2,985 | 38 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 | #2,118 | 63 |
| 2009 | #3,000 | 57 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #3,222 | 52 | #1,916 | 75 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 | #2,248 | 56 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 | #2,344 | 48 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | #2,922 | 33 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #2,429 | 40 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #2,502 | 32 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #2,115 | 40 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | — | #2,190 | 33 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,432 | 28 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,509 | 23 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,215 | 26 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,891 | 17 | |
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First appearance
1986
The first year at least five boys were named Payden! It came in at #2,891, and was given to 17 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2023–2025, when fewer than 15 boys a year got the name.
Where Payden is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Payden in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Payden
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 995 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #7,194)
- 3,383 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #7,194)
- 4,228 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2008 at #1,916 (75 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 27,202
- Highest: 1 in 27,202 boys born in 2008 were named Payden (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 35.5% of all boys named Payden (477) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 92 | #2,215 (1987) | #2,521 |
| 1990s | 308 | #2,082 (1994) | #2,546 |
| 2000s | 477 | #1,916 (2008) | #2,480 |
| 2010s | 362 | #2,118 (2010) | #3,504 |
| 2020s | 104 | #3,811 (2020) | #5,721 |
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.
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