Peyton

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Peyton is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 16th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: English surname/place name.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 14K◐
  • CACanada1 in 15K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 16K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈24K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
405 ●

457K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 14K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

PaytonLatin · English●227K records
ПэйтонCyrillic · Russian●6 records
เพย์ตั้นThai · Thai●3 records

Locally spelled Payton in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 14 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

English surname/place name

Sources 1

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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Peyton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#86123,670406K rec.1 in 14K69KPayton405
GB United Kingdom—14,94317K rec.—10Payton115
CA Canada—5,0476K rec.—36Payton87
AU Australia—4,2346.7K rec.—74Payton78
DE Germany—1,4831.7K rec.—1Payton40
IT Italy—1,0721.3K rec.——Payton11
SG Singapore—564670 rec.——Payton16
MY Malaysia—559646 rec.——Payton13
PH Philippines—548768 rec.——Payton20
RU Russia—478974 rec.——Payton12
LR Liberia#164051.5K rec.——Payton2
IE Ireland—341652 rec.——Peyton38

Roughly 24K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 14K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English101K87%
  • Spanish3.8K3%
  • 2.3K2%
  • German9641%
  • French9201%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English101,29887%
Spanish3,8033%
2,2712%
German9641%
French9201%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Peyton is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname12K records spelled Peyton7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Peytón, Peytòn, Pëytön, Pèyton

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020005.3K · 2009

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Peyton in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18845
18877
18906
18916
18928
18937
18956
18987
19035
19076
19119
19128
191314
191424
191523
191615
191719
191831
191927
192024
192132
192219
192325
192419
192526
192620
192725
192811
192917
193018
193117
193215
193317
193411
193521
193617
193718
193826
193920
194020
194126
194216
194321
194423
194516
194622
194723
194823
194925
195018
195127
195220
195319
195419
195522
195623
195721
195820
195920
196023
196117
196228
196322
196427
196528
196628
196723
196824
196927
197024
197129
197223
197334
197450
197546
197630
197727
197839
197934
198024
198132
198236
198343
198450
198557
198675
198780
198880
1989107
1990121
1991125
1992398
1993617
1994585
1995588
19961,104
19971,303
19981,451
19991,382
20002,000
20012,114
20021,764
20031,768
20042,484
20052,843
20062,686
20073,375
20084,738
20095,318
20104,973
20114,679
20124,478
20134,580
20144,455
20153,906
20163,511
20173,260
20182,912
20192,869
20202,730
20212,695
20222,319
20231,960
20241,817
20251,559

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 125 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

180018501900195020002050Joseph Hopkins Peyton, b. 1808Harley Peyton, b. 1901Gerry Peyton, b. 1956Kimberly Marie Peyton, b. 1957Jeff Stryker, b. 1962Elizabeth Peyton, b. 1965Ben Peyton, b. 1977Brad Peyton, b. 1978Claudia Jessie, b. 1989Marlowe Peyton, b. 2004

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Peyton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202069K#495
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202045K#495
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,477
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.9K#3,498
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.8K#3,344
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.6K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025398—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024175—
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)202374—
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)201972#97
AU AustraliaAU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD)202466#80
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)202466—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 572 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Peyton?
We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Peyton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Peyton have the most bearers?
We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Peyton in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled payton.
How common is Peyton compared with other names?
In the United States, Peyton is the 861st most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Peyton mean?
Recorded meaning: English surname/place name
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peyton” — the 861st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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