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Paxtyn

Paxtyn is a boy's name that peaked in 2023, when it was the 2,805th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 960 Paxtyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Paxtyn boys named Paxtyn

Girls and boys called Paxtyn

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Paxtyn crossed from girls to boys in 2019, and has stayed there for 7 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 65% boys, and in 2025 it was 57%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 17 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
970
Estimated living today
960
Median age today
8
Peak year
2023
Best rank
2,805th
Rank in 2025
3,583rd
First recorded
1997
Girls / boys
477 / 493

How old the living Paxtyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 970 babies given the name since 1997, about 960 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 950 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Paxtyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Paxtyn is most concentrated in Texas (13.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular boys’ names the year Paxtyn peaked:

All the names of 2023

Related names

Paxtyn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.