Peyton
Peyton is a girl's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 42nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 199th. About 138,000 Peytons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Peyton
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Peyton crossed from boys to girls in 1992, and has stayed there for 6 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 72% girls, and in 2025 it was 80%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 75 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
- 140,602
- Estimated living today
- 138,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 42nd
- Rank in 2025
- 199th
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 88,219 / 52,383
How old the living Peytons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 140,602 babies given the name since 1884, about 138,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 87,000 of them are children and 290 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 the name comes from
Variant of Payton.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Peytons
- Francis Peyton Rous (1879–1970)American scientist
- Peyton Manning (born 1976)American football player
- Peyton Reed (born 1964)American film director
- Peyton List (born 1986)American actress
- Peyton Randolph (1721–1775)president of the first Continental Congress
- Peyton Elizabeth Lee (born 2004)American actress
- Peyton Meyer (born 1998)American actor
- Peyton Stearns (born 2001)US American tennis player
People named Peyton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Peyton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Peyton is most concentrated in Nevada (1.9×), Tennessee (1.6×), Alaska (1.6×), Georgia (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular girls’ names the year Peyton peaked:
Peyton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Peyton | 2,647 | 254th |
| New Zealand girls | Peyton | 715 | 48th |
| France girls | Peyton | 415 | 1,088th |
| Scotland girls | Peyton | 404 | 151st |
| England and Wales boys | Peyton | 195 | 1,462nd |
| Belgium girls | Peyton | 176 | 521st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Peyton | 59 | 239th |
| Ireland girls | Peyton | 54 | 427th |
| France boys | Peyton | 5 | 5,892nd |
| Scotland boys | Peyton | 3 | 686th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Peyton: rank by region
In 2024, Peyton was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Peyton | 378 | 7 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Peyton appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (162nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Peyton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.