Paiton
Feminine · “Paega's farm”
Paiton is given to both — 1,207 girls and 165 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
The -ton at the end of a thousand English surnames is the word town. Old English tun meant an enclosure and then a farmstead, and it is the commonest ending in English place names: Brighton, Preston, Paxton, Peyton. Paiton is a farm in Suffolk, several centuries and one respelling later.
How old is the name Paiton?
Paiton first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Paiton alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,200 people named Paiton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Paiton most popular?
Paiton peaked in 2008, reaching #1927 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 8,990 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tun to Paiton
The story of Paiton
Tun began as a fence and became the ground inside it, then the farm, then the settlement, and finally the English word town, which is why so many English places end in it. Peyton is one of those places, in Suffolk, and it produced a family name in the ordinary way. The name became widely visible in America for a quite separate reason: a 1956 novel called Peyton Place, about the things a small New England town keeps quiet, was one of the biggest sellers of the century and ran for years as a television series, which put the two words in front of everyone. Peyton then went to girls in the 1990s, and Paiton, Payton and Paityn followed as the sound was rewritten.
Meaning
Paega's farm
From the English place name Peyton, which is Old English: a personal name, Paega, with tun, an enclosure or farmstead. The place gave a surname, the surname gave a first name, and the first name was then respelled by ear. The word tun is the direct ancestor of town.
How the name formed
- tun
- Peyton
- Paiton
Pronouncing Paiton
PAY-tun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Peyton, Payton and Paiton are said identically; the second syllable reduces to almost nothing in all three.
Nicknames for Paiton
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 2008109 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1927reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- +60.0%8 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Paitons among us
people named Paiton are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Paiton
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Paiton
- #10917
- Paiton on the 2025 chart
- #409
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Paiton went to 8 girls in 2025, but Payton is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 709, which makes it the 409th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,508 places above the chart.
- Payton701
- Paiton8
About 1 girl in 2,267 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Paiton itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Christianne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Paiton's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Christianne climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Christianne's path sketches the road Paiton is walking now.
Paiton sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Paiton beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Paiton in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented English place behind it, which can be found on a map.
- Two syllables that everyone says correctly on first sight.
- It serves either child, and the records show both.
- Peyton and Payton are both far commoner, so this spelling will be corrected constantly.
- Peyton Place is still a phrase for a scandalous small town, and older readers will hear it.
- The few boys given this spelling will be read as girls on paper, which reverses the name's own history.
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Frequently asked
- How many Paitons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Paiton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Paiton?
- Paiton is one of 2 recorded spellings. Payton is the more common one — 701 births in 2025 against 8 for Paiton.
- How popular is the name Paiton in 2025?
- Paiton ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Paiton?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Paiton — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Paiton with classmates?
- Paiton will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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