Paytyn
Paytyn was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 495 Americans have been recorded with it between 1999 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paytyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paytyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,899, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 2008, the peak
Paytyn peaked in 2008, when 47 girls were given it, #3,520 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,899 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,879 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,922 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,854 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,144 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,052 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,750 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,150 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,658 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,136 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 31 | #4,616 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,195 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,331 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,503 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,723 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,520 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,345 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,603 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,948 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,148 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,110 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,937 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,068 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,540 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,969 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paytyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paytyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paytyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paytyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 491 Americans named Paytyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 446 people named Paytyn (426 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
How common is the spelling Paytyn?
Paytyn is a less common spelling of Paityn: SSA has recorded 495 Paytyn and 6,338 Paityn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 99,177 babies since 1880, Paytyn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 946 babies recorded by SSA was a Paytyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Paytyn
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 Paytyn and names like it
- Compare Paytyn and PaitynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPaytyn peaked in 2008.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paytyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Paytyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paytyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.