Paytyn

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 14 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
14
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Paytyn by the numbers

Paytyn was given to 14 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 47 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Paytyn

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 Paytyn. 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)
  • Paitynpeace settlement; an invented spelling of Payton282 in the US (2017)
  • Paytenpeace settlement or town; a modern respelling of Payton82 in the US (2017)
  • Paxtynfrom the town of peace; invented spelling of Paxton59 in the US (2017)
  • Peytynvariant of Peyton; settlement of Paega5 in the US (2017)
  • Paetyn55 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Paytyn

Names that are said the same way as Paytyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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