Paityn
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Not recorded
- Origin
- English
Paityn is a name traditionally given to a girl of English origin. Our sources do not preserve a single agreed-upon literal translation for this particular name, so we list its meaning as unrecorded rather than guess at one. Browse more English baby names or search the full library by meaning.
About the Name Paityn
Paityn is a modern American coinage, a creatively respelled form of the surname-name Peyton. Rather than carrying an ancient etymology of its own, it reflects a contemporary fashion for reworking established surnames with fresh, inventive spellings and the popular -yn ending that signals a current, distinctly feminine look favored for girls in recent decades.
Its charm lies in that inventive shape: the familiar, recognizable two-syllable sound of Peyton, recast with an unexpected vowel and a stylish finish that makes it feel personal and new. Paityn belongs to a broad wave of such names that gave parents a way to take a known sound and make it their own, trading traditional spelling for individuality and a soft, trendy polish that fits the tastes of its era.
As a girls' name, Paityn first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2008 and reached its peak in 2010 at rank #630, with roughly 4,600 girls given this spelling across its top-1000 years. It last appeared there in 2021 at #940, marking Paityn as a characteristic creation of late-2000s and 2010s naming, when respelled surnames were at their most fashionable. Soft, inventive, and unmistakably of its era, the name let parents take a popular sound and make it entirely their own, trading convention for individuality and a fresh, feminine polish.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Paityn
US Popularity History (2008–2021)
Annual US births named Paityn by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2010 with 466 girls named Paityn (girl rank #630 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2021, ranked #940 for girls (282 US births). That's 310 places below its 2010 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Paityn Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Paityn the strongest states are Utah, Kansas, Louisiana.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | #597 | 36 |
| 2 | Kansas | #647 | 16 |
| 3 | Louisiana | #665 | 63 |
| 4 | Kentucky | #673 | 33 |
| 5 | Alabama | #688 | 36 |
| 6 | Washington | #697 | 40 |
| 7 | Missouri | #710 | 43 |
| 8 | Michigan | #732 | 69 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | #752 | 23 |
| 10 | South Carolina | #756 | 30 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | #950 | 54 |
| 2 | Illinois | #892 | 46 |
| 3 | Georgia | #868 | 57 |
| 4 | Indiana | #816 | 33 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | #808 | 72 |
| 6 | Ohio | #794 | 114 |
| 7 | Wisconsin | #776 | 32 |
| 8 | Tennessee | #758 | 37 |
| 9 | South Carolina | #756 | 30 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | #752 | 23 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Paityn in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Paityn to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Paityn against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).