Payne
Payne is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2000121 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1900
- 1,291people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,291 boys have been named Payne in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 121 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 43%.
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Payne was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Payne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kevonpeak 2000
- Kohlpeak 2001
- Kavonpeak 2000
- Kejuanpeak 2003
- Akashpeak 2002
- Jalenpeak 2000
- Devionpeak 2001
- Colbypeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.