Payton
Payton is ranked 381st among girls in 2024 (820 births). Its best rank was 79th, in 2010.
- Rank in 2024
- #381down 70 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8200.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 20093,646 births
- Best rank
- #79in 2010
- Since 1966
- 83,955people given the name
The story in the numbers
59,329 girls have been named Payton in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 3,646 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 135 → 381).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2000s alone account for 39%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.
Payton is used for both sexes: 29% of its bearers are boys (24,626), most of them born around 2000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Payton was the 84th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Payton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aryanapeak 2014
- Ariyanapeak 2008
- Naomypeak 2008
- Rileepeak 2008
- Aaliahpeak 2009
- Ariannapeak 2014
- Emaleighpeak 2006
- Zoeepeak 2012
Other spellings in the data
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.