Payten — #7029 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Payten

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,330 babies named Payten between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Payten currently holds the #7029 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 310 babies received it in a single year. Payten is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 631 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Payten performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,459 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Payten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 246 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Payten in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Payten 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 3,330 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.