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Paityn vs Paizlee

American parents have registered 6,338 Paityns since 1880, against 1,120 Paizlees. Paityn is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Paityn against Paizlee, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Paityn Paizlee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Paityn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Paityn had 285 and Paizlee had 93.

Side by side

  Paityn Paizlee
Total US births 6,3381,120
Most in one year 466101
Babies in 2025 10728
Estimated living today 6,3001,100
Median age today 129
Peak year 20102015
Best rank 630th girls1,972nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,855th4,758th
First recorded 19932000
Girls / boys 6,309 / 291,120 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Paityns alive today are over 12; half the Paizlees are over 9. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Paityn and Paizlee.