Paxton
Paxton is ranked 288th among boys in 2024 (1,165 births). Its best rank was 203rd, in 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- #288down 31 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1650.07% of boys
- Peak year
- 20161,993 births
- Best rank
- #203in 2016
- Since 1921
- 29,274people given the name
The story in the numbers
27,199 boys have been named Paxton in the United States since 1921, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 1,993 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 260 → 288).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 57%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,075 girls have also been given it, 7.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Paxton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 33 | |
| 1930s | 16 | |
| 1940s | 20 | |
| 1950s | 28 | |
| 1960s | 124 | |
| 1970s | 332 | |
| 1980s | 219 | |
| 1990s | 959 | |
| 2000s | 3,501 | |
| 2010s | 15,404 | |
| 2020s | 6,563 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Paxton was the 203rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Paxton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rugerpeak 2016
- Cristianopeak 2015
- Breckenpeak 2017
- Graysenpeak 2016
- Kamdynpeak 2016
- Kasenpeak 2019
- Jaycepeak 2015
- Sawyerpeak 2015
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.