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Boy's name · #1569 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave
12% boys · 88% girls — About 88% of babies named Payton in recent years have been girls. Payton →
Payton's best rank, #219, came in 2000; it has stepped well back to #1569 today. Roughly 25,000 boys have been named Payton since 1880.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 16 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 81 notable people named Payton:
Sports figures appear 3.81× more often than among typical names — e.g. Payton Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1998).
Together with its spelling variant Peyton (#684), Payton would rank around #578 with about 510 births last year — the newborns split about 79/21 between Peyton and Payton.
Similar names: Peyton · Skylar · Paxton · Kolby · Dayton · Trevon
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