Paxten
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- PAX-ton
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Paxten is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “Paecc's settlement”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Paxten mean?
English: spelling of Paxton; surname from place names
“Paecc's settlement”
From an English surname based on place names such as Paxton in Cambridgeshire, meaning the settlement of a man called Paecc.
Meaning borrowed from Paxton. More on Wiktionary.
Is Paxten a girl's or a boy's name?
Paxten is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Paxten in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 35% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Paxten, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had fewer boys named Paxten than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Paxten in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,035 boys in the US were given Paxten or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #337, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Paxten in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,090 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,931 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,120 |
| 2015 | 22 | #4,405 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,461 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,530 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,219 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,737 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,796 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,259 |
Nicknames for Paxten
Names like Paxten
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Chozen, Hudson, Colson, Easton, Kingston, Stetson, Kaizen, Archer, Wesson, Shepherd, Beckett, Holden
Other spellings of Paxten
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Paxten: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paxten, updated 20 October 2026.