Payné
given name · Latin script
Payné is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 87th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 1.1K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
142,601 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Payne in US United States, CU Cuba, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Payné counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 142,601 | 1 in 2.3K | 143K | Payne | 185 |
| GY Guyana | — | 457 | 1 in 1.6K | 457 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 320 | 1 in 156K | 320 | Payne | 34 |
| DK Denmark | — | 110 | 1 in 53K | 110 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 96 | 1 in 58K | 96 | — | 2 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 89 | 1 in 1.1K | 89 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 51 | 1 in 1.1K | 51 | — | — |
| CU Cuba | #87 | — | — | — | Payne | 14 |
142,601 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Payné have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 143 thousand people named Payné, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled payne.
- Where is Payné most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Payné is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Payné?
- In the United States, the national register counted 142,601 people named Payné in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Payné compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Payné is the 87th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Payné?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/payn%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Payné” — the 87th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.