Peyton

Where Peyton comes from

Variant of Payton.
— Wiktionary's entry for Peyton
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #6,086 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Peyton Reed born
    American film director
  3. 1976
    Peyton Manning born
    American football player
  4. 2008
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2009
    Peak, #42
    5,318 babies named Peyton — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #125.
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
  • Peyton Manning · American football player, born 1976
  • Peyton Reed · American film director, born 1964
  • Peyton List · American actress, born 1986
  • Peyton Randolph · president of the first Continental Congress, 1721–1775
  • Peyton Meyer · American actor, born 1998

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.