girls:
3.3k births since 1992
#3006 (47th percentile)
boys:
625 births since 1992
#3961 (14th percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1992
#4380 (43rd percentile)
The name Payten is the #4,380 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,939 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 43.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,006 (47.4% percentile) for all time with 3,314 births since 1992. For boys, it ranks #3,961 (13.6% percentile) for all time with 625 births since 1992.
Payten first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 .
The name Payten has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Payten were girls.
For girls, Payten reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 31.1% percentile (ranked #661) with 153 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 153 births per million (ranked 31.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Payten ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Payten reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #834) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Payten".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Payten is pronounced as PAY-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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