Paeton — unisex name

What the Data Says About Paeton

The Social Security Administration has registered 441 babies named Paeton between 1993 and 2020, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paeton currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 38 babies received it in a single year. Paeton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 86 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paeton performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 205 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Paeton shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Washington, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Paeton in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paeton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 441 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.