Payden — #6289 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Payden

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,332 babies named Payden between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Payden currently holds the #6289 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 75 babies received it in a single year. Payden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 695 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Payden performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 477 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Payden shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 95 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Payden in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Payden 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 1,332 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.