# Paxton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/paxton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | “settlement of (a person named) *pæcc” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 30,318 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 28,194 / 2,124 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 122, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 54 | 3,125 |
| 2012 | 48 | 3,411 |
| 2013 | 54 | 3,068 |
| 2014 | 60 | 2,881 |
| 2015 | 69 | 2,612 |
| 2016 | 91 | 2,144 |
| 2017 | 95 | 2,069 |
| 2018 | 87 | 2,175 |
| 2019 | 83 | 2,227 |
| 2020 | 74 | 2,392 |
| 2021 | 76 | 2,380 |
| 2022 | 86 | 2,204 |
| 2023 | 65 | 2,695 |
| 2024 | 50 | 3,214 |
| 2025 | 49 | 3,239 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,287 | 273 |
| 2012 | 1,496 | 242 |
| 2013 | 1,356 | 262 |
| 2014 | 1,432 | 260 |
| 2015 | 1,677 | 229 |
| 2016 | 1,993 | 203 |
| 2017 | 1,909 | 207 |
| 2018 | 1,694 | 221 |
| 2019 | 1,450 | 252 |
| 2020 | 1,301 | 262 |
| 2021 | 1,392 | 256 |
| 2022 | 1,350 | 257 |
| 2023 | 1,357 | 257 |
| 2024 | 1,170 | 288 |
| 2025 | 988 | 338 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 20 | 1,314 |
| 2023 | 23 | 1,207 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1,951 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,466 |

## People named Paxton

- Paxton Pomykal, American soccer player
- Paxton Whitehead, British actor (1937–2023)
- Paxton Lynch, American football quarterback
- Terry Bradshaw, American football player and sports analyst (born 1948)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.