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Payne

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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
Babies named Payne, by year of birthboys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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

Decadeboys named Payne
1900s5
1910s29
1920s12
1930s5
1980s50
1990s365
2000s551
2010s203
2020s71

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.

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.