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Peyton

Girl's name · #199 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave

81% girls · 19% boys — Peyton is also given to boys: 398 in 2025, about 19% in recent years. Peyton →

Popularity over time

Peyton reached its best rank, #42, in 2009 and ranked #199 in 2025. About 88,000 girls have carried it since 1957.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 49 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#169 in New Zealand (2025) · #192 in Canada (2025) · #324 in Scotland (2025) · #696 in England & Wales (2025) · #894 in Ecuador (2025) · #3,138 in France (2025) · #80 in Australia (QLD) (2024) · #504 in Ireland (2024) · #1,036 in Belgium (2024) · #3,294 in Austria (2024) · #328 in N. Ireland (2023) · #97 in Australia (VIC) (2022) and 2 more.

Famous Peytons

• Peyton List — American actress (born 1998)
• Peyton Elizabeth Lee — American actress (born 2004)
• Peyton Stearns — American tennis player (born 2001)
• Peyton Kennedy — Canadian film and television actress (born 2004)
• Peyton Royce — Australian professional wrestler (born 1992)

In stories & tradition

• Peyton Sawyer — Fictional character from the One Tree Hill television series
• Peyton Driscoll^nl — CSI: NY (TV series)

What Peytons become

Among 141 notable people named Peyton:

Sports figures appear 3.17× more often than among typical names — e.g. Peyton Stearns, American tennis player (born 2001).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Payton (#440), Peyton would rank around #120 with about 2,300 births last year — the newborns split about 69/31 between Peyton and Payton.

Similar names: Skylar · Piper · Rylee · Payton · Addison · Hayden

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