Girl or boy · Old English
Peyton
Say it: PAY-tun
Meaning
From an English surname taken from a place name, probably Old English personal name Pæga plus tun 'enclosure, settlement'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used as a given name in colonial Virginia families, it became a popular unisex American name from the 1990s, more often for girls.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 127,644 babies given this name since 1884
- At its height in 2009, about 1 in 345 girls
- 3,384 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Payton, Paton
Famous bearers
- Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress
- Peyton Manning, American football quarterback
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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