Payten
- #7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
- Given to girls 84.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 310 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,344since 1992
Payten 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 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,653 | 42 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #3,069 | 53 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #2,610 | 66 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #2,487 | 72 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #1,770 | 118 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #1,665 | 127 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #1,435 | 157 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #1,359 | 172 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #994 | 255 | #3,306 | 33 |
| 2010 | #924 | 281 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #884 | 310 | #3,332 | 33 |
| 2008 | #945 | 287 | #2,879 | 41 |
| 2007 | #1,485 | 156 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #1,597 | 134 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #1,471 | 143 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #1,698 | 114 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #2,638 | 60 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #2,251 | 73 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #1,887 | 92 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #1,885 | 90 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #2,798 | 47 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #2,158 | 64 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #6,670 | 7 |
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First appearance
1992
The first year at least five girls were named Payten! It came in at #6,314, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992, when fewer than 15 girls a year got the name.
Where Payten is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Payten in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Payten
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 4,210 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 540 spots in 2008
- Biggest drop: 365 spots in 2012
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2009 at #884 (310 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2008–2011
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,926
- Highest: 1 in 5,926 girls born in 2009 were named Payten (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 43.6% of all girls named Payten (1,459) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 287 | #2,158 (1997) | #3,801 |
| 2000s | 1,459 | #884 (2009) | #1,674 |
| 2010s | 1,398 | #924 (2010) | #1,823 |
| 2020s | 200 | #3,069 (2021) | #4,862 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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