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Boy's name · #684 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave
19% boys · 81% girls — About 81% of babies named Peyton in recent years have been girls. Peyton →
Peyton's best rank, #125, came in 2007; it has stepped well back to #684 today. Roughly 52,000 boys have been named Peyton since 1884.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 35 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#1,170 in Canada (2024).
Among 141 notable people named Peyton:
Sports figures appear 3.17× more often than among typical names — e.g. Peyton Manning, American football player (born 1976).
Together with its spelling variant Payton (#1569), Peyton would rank around #578 with about 510 births last year — the newborns split about 79/21 between Peyton and Payton.
Similar names: Payton · Drake · Pierce · Colby · Dayton · Layton
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