Paetyn
Paetyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,853 among girls’ names; 1,098 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Paetyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paetyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paetyn?
#12,853 among girls’ names, 2025
Paetyn fell from #2,838 in 2015 to #12,853 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 4.4 per million.
90 babies in 2011, the peak
Paetyn peaked in 2011, when 90 girls were given it, #2,138 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,853 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,310 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,697 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,442 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,349 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,985 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,434 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,600 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,957 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,507 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,838 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,878 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,402 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,033 | 31.8 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,138 | 51.2 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,892 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,563 | 39.7 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,012 | 30.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,638 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,973 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,389 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,911 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,358 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,722 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,543 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,400 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,301 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,415 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,605 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,207 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paetyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,098 Americans recorded as Paetyn, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Girls and boys named Paetyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paetyn, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,098 Americans ever recorded as Paetyn. The median Paetyn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 858 people named Paetyn (818 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 951 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 544 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 99,177 babies since 1880, Paetyn is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 946 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Paetyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Paetyn and names like it
- Compare Paetyn and PaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paetyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Paetyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Paetyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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