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Peyton

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~138,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#199 among girls
Births in 2025
1,957 140,602 since 1880
Typical age
15 years, median

Peyton popularity over time

Peyton rank by birth year, 1957–2025Peyton ranked #6,086 in 1957 and #199 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #42, in 2009.#100#1,000#199best #42 in 20091960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1957–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2009: 8,028 births recorded as Peyton. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1884. Across the record, 13 years put Peyton in the top 100.

The 2025 position is #199, on 1,957 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 63%. Year on year the rank dropped by 31.

Babies named Peyton per yearPeaks at 8,028 births in 2009.8,028 in 2009018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Peyton?

Roughly 138,400 Peytons are alive in the US right now. That is out of 140,602 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 87,500 women and 50,900 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Peyton?

Half of living Peytons are older than 15, half younger. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Peyton a millennial-era name.

Your Peyton

Ages of living people named PeytonHalf of living Peytons are older than 15 and half younger.median 15020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Peyton is most common

The name is concentrated in West Virginia, at 2.3× the national rate. Vermont, Maine and Hawaii follow.

Where Peyton is used more than average5 states use the name Peyton more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: 2.2× the national rateMEVermont: 2.3× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: 2.3× the national rateWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 2.0× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 2.1× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Peyton is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
West Virginia 276 2.3×
Vermont 52 2.3×
Maine 153 2.2×
Hawaii 122 2.1×
Delaware 106 2.0×

Is Peyton a boy's or a girl's name?

63% girls37% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

The name leans girls, but 21.2% of births in the last decade were boys. Across the whole record, 62.7% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Peyton in England and Wales

ONS recorded 59 births named Peyton in 2025, ranking it #696. That is 65% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Peyton comes from

Variant of Payton.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Peyton

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Peyton Manning American football player 1976 45
Peyton Reed American film director 1964 34
Peyton Randolph president of the first Continental Congress 1721–1775 21
Peyton Elizabeth Lee American actress 2004 21
Peyton Meyer American actor 1998 21
Peyton Stearns US American tennis player 2001 19
Peyton Kennedy Canadian actress 2004 17
Peyton Watson American basketball player 2002 16
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 192 in 1991 to 585 in 1992 — 3.0 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Peyton

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Peyton was in 2025.

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