Paityn
Paityn was given to 107 girls in 2025, #1,863 among girls’ names; 6,338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,290 Americans named Paityn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paityn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Paityn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Paityn is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Payton.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Paityn?
#1,863 among girls’ names, 2025
Paityn fell from #829 in 2015 to #1,863 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.07 per 1,000.
466 babies in 2010, the peak
Paityn peaked in 2010, when 466 girls were given it, #630 among girls’ names. The 107 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,863 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,693 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,696 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 209 | #1,162 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 282 | #940 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 259 | #988 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 264 | #981 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 261 | #1,002 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 280 | #947 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 320 | #881 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 338 | #829 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 376 | #745 | 0.21 |
| 2013 | 431 | #664 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 428 | #660 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 403 | #695 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 466 | #630 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 430 | #679 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 291 | #937 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 172 | #1,394 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,892 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,831 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,779 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,760 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,071 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,024 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,764 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,357 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,896 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,136 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,291 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,964 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,281 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paityn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paityn has been given almost only to girls: 29 boys in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Paityn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paityn, and how old are they?
6,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,338 Americans ever recorded as Paityn. The median Paityn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 4,581 people named Paityn (4,530 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 42 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,890 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,360 |
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).
Where are babies named Paityn born?
The states with the most babies named Paityn are Texas, Louisiana and Ohio, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,171 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #588 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,639 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,405 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,618 | 0.8× |
Where Paityn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Paityn is most over-represented in Utah: since 1993 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Paityn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 99,177 babies since 1880, Paityn is the second most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 946 babies (11%), again the second 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 Paityn
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 Paityn and names like it
- Compare Paityn and PaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPaityn peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paityn since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Paityn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Paityn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Paityn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.