Paityn
Feminine · “Pæga's settlement”
Paityn is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 6,309 girls against 29 boys since 1880.
Paityn respells Peyton, and the English place name behind it is Pæga's settlement — a personal name nobody can now identify joined to tun.
How old is the name Paityn?
Paityn first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Paityn is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 6,300 people named Paityn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Paityn most popular?
Paityn peaked in 2010, reaching #630 nationally. Today it ranks #1855, 1,225 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Pæga tun to Paityn
The story of Paityn
Peyton was an English place name and surname that entered American given-name use for boys and then, from the 1990s, for girls in far larger numbers. The respellings multiplied — Payton, Paiton, Paityn, Peyton. Paityn appears in the American registers in the 2000s and is in current use.
Meaning
Pæga's settlement
From the Old English personal name Pæga, of unrecovered meaning, and tun, 'settlement' or 'enclosure'. Peyton in Essex and Paighton in Devon preserve it. The tun element is settled; the personal name behind it is not recoverable, which is common with English place names.
How the name formed
- Pæga tun
- Peyton
- Paityn
Related forms: Peyton · Payton · Paiton
Pronouncing Paityn
PAY-tun
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Paityn
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 2010466 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #630reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −11.6%107 in 2025, from 121
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.
Paityn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Peyton in English — spelling variant
- Payton in English — spelling variant
- Paiton in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, California.
Paityns among us
people named Paityn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,021 born in 2025 was named Paityn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Paityn
- #1855
- Paityn on the 2025 chart
- #842
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Paityn went to 107 girls in 2025, but Paitynn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 118, which makes it the 842nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,013 places above the chart.
- Paityn107
- Paitynn11
About 1 girl in 13,621 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 15,021 for Paityn 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 Adriane test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Paityn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adriane climbed just as high around 1983, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adriane's path sketches the road Paityn is walking now.
Paityn 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
Where Paityn is headed
Paityn is easing off slowly — about 31% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Paityn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Paityn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A real English settlement stands behind it.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It belongs to a documented and productive American naming pattern.
- At least four spellings of the sound are in common use.
- Peyton is the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- It will be respelled by other people constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Paityns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,300 people named Paityn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Paityn?
- Paityn is the most-used spelling in US records — 107 of the 118 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Paitynn.
- How popular is the name Paityn in 2025?
- Paityn ranks #1855 among US girl names in 2025, with 107 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Paityn?
- About 1 in every 15,021 US girls born in 2025 was named Paityn — 107 in all.
- Will my child share the name Paityn with classmates?
- Paityn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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