Paxton — #288 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Paxton

The Social Security Administration has registered 27,199 babies named Paxton between 1921 and 2024, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Paxton currently holds the #288 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 1,993 babies received it in a single year. Paxton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,075 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paxton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 15,404 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Paxton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,371 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Paxton in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paxton 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 27,199 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.