Peyton

What Peyton means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Peyton yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #72 in 2015, #199 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Peyton?

US: Falling: down from #72 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #285 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2009, when 5,318 girls got the name (#42 that year). First in the US records in 1957.

How common

• About 1 in 1,031 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,779 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,789 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (4.49 per 1,000 girls), NH (4.21 per 1,000 girls), ME (3.85 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Peyton is #199 in the US and #696 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 79.7% of US babies named Peyton were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Payton701 US · 16 E&W
• Payten14 US
• Paiton8 US
• Patton6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Peyton

Girls

• Maddison#438Editor’s note Down from #310 in 2015 to #438 in 2025 in the US
• Reese#192“ardor”^*
• Rylie#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*
• Brylee#992Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #477 in 2015, #992 in 2025
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*

For a brother

• Parker#102From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Kyler#404“archer”^*
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Zane#324Variant of Zayn, meaning “beauty”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Peyton’s. Rank is US 2025.