Payten
Payten was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,799 among girls’ names; 3,975 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,940 Americans named Payten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 14 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Payten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Payten?
#7,799 among girls’ names, 2025
Payten fell from #1,776 in 2015 to #7,799 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 66.1 to 8.7 per million.
343 babies in 2009, the peak
Payten peaked in 2009, when 343 babies were given it (310 girls, #885 among girls’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,799 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,175 | 5 | #13,734 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,839 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,691 | 5 | #13,824 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,101 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,325 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,919 | 7 | #10,533 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,638 | 5 | #13,603 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,503 | 11 | #7,420 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,111 | 11 | #7,477 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 118 | #1,776 | 9 | #8,544 |
| 2014 | 127 | #1,671 | 13 | #6,536 |
| 2013 | 157 | #1,439 | 25 | #4,030 |
| 2012 | 172 | #1,363 | 27 | #3,856 |
| 2011 | 255 | #995 | 33 | #3,350 |
| 2010 | 281 | #924 | 51 | #2,459 |
| 2009 | 310 | #885 | 33 | #3,383 |
| 2008 | 287 | #947 | 41 | #2,925 |
| 2007 | 156 | #1,487 | 51 | #2,497 |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,606 | 40 | #2,866 |
| 2005 | 143 | #1,477 | 35 | #2,995 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,710 | 37 | #2,828 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,662 | 27 | #3,417 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,256 | 21 | #4,003 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,894 | 24 | #3,589 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,892 | 30 | #2,968 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,331 | 18 | #4,110 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,832 | 17 | #4,142 |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,166 | 12 | #5,183 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,909 | 15 | #4,330 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,180 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,480 | 8 | #6,809 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,624 | 5 | #9,775 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,548 | 7 | #7,190 |
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 Payten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,975 Americans recorded as Payten, 84% are girls and 16% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 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 Payten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Payten, and how old are they?
3,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,975 Americans ever recorded as Payten. The median Payten alive today is 17 years old; half are between 14 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,328 people named Payten (2,768 women and girls, 560 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,739 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 144 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 982 |
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 Payten born?
The states with the most babies named Payten are Texas, California and Ohio, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 256 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 189 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 151 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 119 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 109 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 83 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Washington | 81 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 76 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 70 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 70 | not ranked | 1.0× |
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 Payten 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, Payten is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 946 babies (1.5%), again the third 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 Payten
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1990-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Reegan | 1,529 | |
| Taegan | 1,500 | |
| Rilee | 3,742 | |
| Kerrington | 1,003 | |
| Talyn | 1,833 |
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 Payten and names like it
- Compare Payten and PaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPayten peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Payten since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Payten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Payten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.