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Payton
Rank in 2024
#1,513
Born in 2024
117
Peak year
2000 · #219
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:820 in 2024 (#380)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 117 boys were named Payton, about 1 in every 14,661.
- It peaked in 2000 with 1,581 babies, ranked #219.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 24,626 boys have been named Payton since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Payton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 259 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 246 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 257 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 317 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,798 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 17,749 babies, 0.57 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,979 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Habitational surname from a minor place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name Pǣga + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- A unisex given name:
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Payton, CC BY-SA 4.0.