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Girl's name · #440 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
88% girls · 12% boys — Payton is also given to boys: 109 in 2025, about 12% in recent years. Payton →
Payton reached #79 in 2010 and has faded to #440 since. About 60,000 girls have carried it since 1966.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 46 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#444 in Canada (2025) · #632 in Scotland (2025) · #1,809 in England & Wales (2025) · #3,759 in Ecuador (2025) · #3,289 in Austria (2024) · #199 in New Zealand (2022) · #6,965 in France (2022) · #355 in N. Ireland (2017) · #896 in Ireland (2015).
Among 81 notable people named Payton:
Sports figures appear 3.81× more often than among typical names — e.g. Payton Crawford, American footballer (born 2001).
A popular twin pairing with Payton is Paige for a girl.
Together with its spelling variant Peyton (#199), Payton would rank around #120 with about 2,300 births last year — the newborns split about 69/31 between Peyton and Payton.
Similar names: Brooklynn · Paityn · Harley · Peyton · Hayden · Paige
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