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Girl's name · #199 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
81% girls · 19% boys — Peyton is also given to boys: 398 in 2025, about 19% in recent years. Peyton →
Peyton reached its best rank, #42, in 2009 and ranked #199 in 2025. About 88,000 girls have carried it since 1957.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 49 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#169 in New Zealand (2025) · #354 in Scotland (2025) · #702 in England & Wales (2025) · #894 in Ecuador (2025) · #3,138 in France (2025) · #155 in Canada (2024).
Among 141 notable people named Peyton:
Sports figures appear 3.17× more often than among typical names — e.g. Peyton Stearns, US American tennis player.
Together with its spelling variant Payton (#440), Peyton would rank around #120 with about 2,300 births last year — the newborns split about 69/31 between Peyton and Payton.
Similar names: Payton · Skylar · Piper · Rylee · Hayden · Brooklyn
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