Paiton
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 20 babies a year in the US.
Paiton by the numbers
Paiton was given to 20 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 109 babies in 2008, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Paiton
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Paiton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Paytonpeace settlement or town; variant of Paxton1,922 in the US (2017)
- Paeton7 in the US (2017)
- Peytonfrom Paega's town; an English place name used as given name4,236 in the US (2017)
- Paysonson of peace; a modern respelling of Paxson114 in the US (2017)
- Paxtynfrom the town of peace; invented spelling of Paxton59 in the US (2017)
- Paxten19 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Paiton
Names that are said the same way as Paiton, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Paitynpeace settlement; an invented spelling of Payton282 in the US (2017)
- Paytenpeace settlement or town; a modern respelling of Payton82 in the US (2017)
- Pattonsettlement of patta; a warrior's place69 in the US (2017)
- Paightonpeasant's settlement; a form of Payton10 in the US (2017)
- Patonfrom the settlement of patrick6 in the US (2017)
- Paitynn15 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Paiton
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