Peyton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: English surname/place name (Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Peyton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 21st most common surname. Peyton is also written Пэйтон in Cyrillic and เพย์ตั้น in Thai.
- IEIreland≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 70Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Peyton itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 447 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
23,670 named Payton, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Peyton in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Payton in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)English surname/place name
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Peyton, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where the surname Peyton is found
(measured from records)Peyton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #859 | 23,670as Payton | 1 in 14K | 69K | Payton | 447 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 2.3K | Payton | 151 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 36 | Payton | 106 |
| LR Liberia | #21 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Payton | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 74 | Payton | 85 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Peyton | 43 |
| AR Argentina | — | 33 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | — | 1 |
23,670 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Brad Peytonb. 1978CACanadian director and writer
- Claudia Jessieb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress and singer
- Marlowe Peytonb. 2004USAmerican actor and music producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Peyton mean, and where does it come from?
- English surname/place name Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Peyton?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Payton, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Liberia and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Peyton?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 33 people named Peyton, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Peyton compared with other names?
- In the United States, Peyton is the 859th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peyton?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peytonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peyton” — ranked 495th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.