girls:
127 births since 1993
#5589 (2nd percentile)
boys:
137 births since 2006
#4449 (3rd percentile)
overall:
264 births since 1993
#7475 (3rd percentile)
The name Paiden is the #7,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 264 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,449 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 137 births since 2006. For girls, it ranks #5,589 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 127 births since 1993.
Paiden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for girls and 2006 for boys). Birth data for Paiden is available in 20 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (17 years for boys and 15 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Paiden is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Paiden were boys. Interestingly, until around 2015, the name was more popular for girls (55.8% girls from 1993 to 2014), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (64.4% boys from 2015 to 2023).
For boys, Paiden reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #893) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Paiden ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 32.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Paiden reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #923) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Paiden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Paiden is pronounced as PAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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