Paighten — girls' name
18 babies named Paighten in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
100% of everyone ever named Paighten was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Paighten in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Paighten
The Social Security Administration has registered 18 babies named Paighten between 2017 and 2019, spanning 3 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paighten currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Paighten performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window.
No etymological entry is currently available for Paighten 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 18 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.
Paighten at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Paighten popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2017
- Peak year (2019)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 3 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
18 total births across 3 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 7 births in a single year.
Paighten by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 18 births that decade — 100% of Paighten's all-time total
Paighten decade highlights
- Peak decade 18 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Paighten's strongest decade
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 100% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2017–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.