Payten
Payten is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 885th, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2009310 births
- Best rank
- #885in 2009
- Since 1992
- 3,961people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,330 girls have been named Payten in the United States since 1992, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 310 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2000s alone account for 44%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Payten is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are boys (631), most of them born around 2007.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Payten was the 885th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Payten
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brookelynnpeak 2008
- Chloeypeak 2009
- Izabellpeak 2010
- Jaylynnpeak 2009
- Brooklynnepeak 2009
- Kloepeak 2009
- Cayleepeak 2009
- Jozlynpeak 2010
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.