Peyten — #14052 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Peyten

The Social Security Administration has registered 508 babies named Peyten between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Peyten currently holds the #14052 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Peyten is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 131 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Peyten performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 231 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Peyten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Peyten in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Peyten 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 508 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.