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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oregon#438 · 1 in 1,843
- Washington#491 · 1 in 2,296
- Oklahoma#495 · 1 in 2,180
- Wisconsin#505 · 1 in 2,505
- Michigan#531 · 1 in 2,779
Best ever in a state: #166 in North Dakota, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #438 | 9 | 1 in 1,843 |
| Washington | #491 | 14 | 1 in 2,296 |
| Oklahoma | #495 | 8 | 1 in 2,180 |
| Wisconsin | #505 | 10 | 1 in 2,505 |
| Michigan | #531 | 16 | 1 in 2,779 |
| Minnesota | #541 | 9 | 1 in 2,862 |
| Iowa | #571 | 5 | 1 in 2,706 |
| Indiana | #625 | 10 | 1 in 3,251 |
| Ohio | #647 | 15 | 1 in 3,759 |
| Missouri | #732 | 7 | 1 in 4,205 |
| Alabama | #800 | 5 | 1 in 4,197 |
| Arizona | #804 | 9 | 1 in 4,055 |
| Louisiana | #806 | 5 | 1 in 4,045 |
| Virginia | #842 | 8 | 1 in 4,702 |
| Florida | #852 | 17 | 1 in 5,064 |
| North Carolina | #862 | 10 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Maryland | #898 | 5 | 1 in 5,055 |
| Colorado | #901 | 5 | 1 in 4,900 |
| Pennsylvania | #901 | 9 | 1 in 6,149 |
| Texas | #1,026 | 26 | 1 in 6,451 |
| Illinois | #1,130 | 9 | 1 in 7,358 |
| New York | #1,380 | 10 | 1 in 9,553 |
| Georgia | #1,381 | 6 | 1 in 8,803 |
| California | #1,500 | 19 | 1 in 12,071 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Payten
- 559 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #7,491)
- 4,210 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #7,491)
- 5,721 spots since 2015 (#1,770 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 540 spots in 2008 (#1,485 → #945)
- Biggest drop: 365 spots in 2012 (#994 → #1,359)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2009 at #884 (310 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2008–2011
- 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%)
- 43.6% of all girls named Payten (1,459) were born in this decade
- 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.
Payten in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 6,589 of them was named Payten, which outranked 95.4% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 49,760 of them was named Payten, which outranked 80.3% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,828West42
- #2,828Xavi42
- #2,828Zephyr42
- #2,879Payten41
- #2,879Abimael41
- #2,879Abisai41
- #2,879Anand41
- #2,946Abdallah40
- #2,946Abiel40
- #2,946Adarsh40
Tied with 66 names at #2,879; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.