Paiton
Paiton was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,672 among girls’ names; 1,372 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Paiton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paiton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paiton?
#11,672 among girls’ names, 2025
Paiton fell from #6,653 in 2015 to #11,672 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 5.0 per million.
119 babies in 2008, the peak
Paiton peaked in 2008, when 119 babies were given it (109 girls, #1,944 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,672 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,078 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,220 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,086 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,156 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,286 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,229 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,749 | 5 | #13,671 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,653 | 7 | #10,333 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,866 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 51 | #3,210 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,079 | 8 | #9,478 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,859 | 8 | #9,378 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,558 | 18 | #5,186 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,131 | 15 | #6,002 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,944 | 10 | #8,131 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,119 | 15 | #5,839 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,841 | 12 | #6,789 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,923 | 7 | #9,857 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,966 | 9 | #7,996 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,112 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,227 | 12 | #5,973 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,864 | 12 | #5,925 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,624 | 12 | #5,811 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,421 | 6 | #9,558 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,336 | 9 | #6,689 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,093 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,603 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,873 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,969 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,515 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,545 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Paiton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,372 Americans recorded as Paiton, 88% are girls and 12% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Paiton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paiton, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,372 Americans ever recorded as Paiton. The median Paiton alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,202 people named Paiton (1,038 women and girls, 164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,330 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 | 93 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 220 |
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).
How common is the spelling Paiton?
Paiton is a less common spelling of Peyton: SSA has recorded 1,372 Paiton and 140,602 Peyton since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 239,284 babies since 1880, Paiton is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 2,903 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 Paiton
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 Paiton and names like it
- Compare Paiton and PeytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPaiton peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paiton since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Paiton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paiton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.