Payne
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 121 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,300since 1900
Payne over time
Rank among boys' names. Payne has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,666 | 16 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,936 | 19 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,451 | 16 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,639 | 21 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,036 | 14 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,053 | 14 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,289 | 17 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,538 | 21 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,804 | 19 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,256 | 17 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,110 | 24 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,531 | 30 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,274 | 34 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,486 | 31 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,025 | 38 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,832 | 40 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,528 | 44 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,452 | 45 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,055 | 55 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #1,832 | 62 |
| 2001 | — | #1,502 | 81 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,142 | 121 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,231 | 41 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,160 | 23 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,047 | 42 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,055 | 40 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | — | #1,638 | 54 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,214 | 34 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,695 | 24 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,215 | 26 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
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| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
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| 1900 | — | #1,310 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Payne! It came in at #1,310, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1900–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Payne
- 744 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #8,243)
- 2,792 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #8,243)
- 2,954 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 2000 at #1,142 (121 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,231 boys born in 2000 were named Payne (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.4% of all boys named Payne (551) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,310 (1900) | #1,310 |
| 1910s | 29 | #1,537 (1911) | #3,102 |
| 1920s | 12 | #3,505 (1924) | #3,872 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,480 (1939) | #3,480 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 50 | #2,215 (1987) | #4,557 |
| 1990s | 365 | #1,434 (1994) | #2,430 |
| 2000s | 551 | #1,142 (2000) | #2,413 |
| 2010s | 203 | #3,531 (2010) | #4,825 |
| 2020s | 80 | #4,936 (2021) | #6,685 |
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.
Payne in 1900
Top boys' names in 1900
More about 1900
boys
150,474 boys got a published name in 1900; 1 in 30,095 of them was named Payne, which outranked 13.0% of the 1,506 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 196 names at #1,310; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.