Paxtyn
Paxtyn is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,517 among girls’ names and #3,636 among boys’, #5,401 among all names counting both); 970 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paxtyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paxtyn?
#3,636 among boys’ names, 2025
Paxtyn fell from #3,344 in 2015 to #3,636 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 18.1 per million.
78 babies in 2016, the peak
Paxtyn peaked in 2016, when 78 babies were given it (39 boys, #3,045 among boys’ names). The 54 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,517 | 31 | #3,636 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,919 | 29 | #3,868 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,222 | 45 | #2,836 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,132 | 37 | #3,260 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,805 | 31 | #3,628 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,266 | 35 | #3,252 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,570 | 25 | #4,198 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,659 | 25 | #4,188 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,459 | 27 | #3,950 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,910 | 39 | #3,045 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,688 | 34 | #3,344 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,994 | 23 | #4,357 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,272 | 22 | #4,427 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,370 | 23 | #4,348 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,095 | 22 | #4,466 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,798 | 21 | #4,638 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,503 | 14 | #6,339 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,394 | 10 | #8,134 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,787 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,315 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,486 | 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 Paxtyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 970 Americans recorded as Paxtyn, 49% are girls and 51% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Paxtyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paxtyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 963 Americans named Paxtyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 583 people named Paxtyn (318 women and girls, 265 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 630 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 31,691 babies since 1880, Paxtyn is the second most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 1,100 babies (4.9%), 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 Paxtyn
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 Paxtyn and names like it
- Compare Paxtyn and PaxtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Paxtyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Paxtyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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