Payton

Where Payton comes from

Habitational surname from a minor place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name Pǣga + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Payton
Payton through the years
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #2,937 among girls with 18 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1998
    Payton Pritchard born
    American basketball player
  4. 2002
    Payton Sandfort born
    American basketball player
  5. 2010
    Peak, #79
    3,589 babies named Payton, its best rank.
  6. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #189.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name:
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Payton Pritchard · American basketball player, born 1998
  • Payton Sandfort · American basketball player, born 2002
  • Payton Talbott · American mixed martial arts fighter, born 1998
  • Payton Turner · American college football defensive end, born 1999
  • Payton Crawford · American soccer player, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.