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Paxton

Rank in 2024
#288
Born in 2024
1,165
Peak year
2016 · #203
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:50 in 2024 (#3,173)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,165 boys were named Paxton, about 1 in every 1,472.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 1,993 babies, ranked #203.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1921.
  • 27,199 boys have been named Paxton since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Paxton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.3
    Gen Z
  7. 0.8
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 28 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 21 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 103 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 422 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 689 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,862 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 18,074 babies, 0.83 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English *Pæcces + tūn (literally “settlement of (a person named) *Pæcc”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Paxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.