Peyton
Peyton is ranked 168th among girls in 2024 (1,812 births). Its best rank was 42nd, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- #168down 26 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,8120.11% of girls
- Peak year
- 20095,317 births
- Best rank
- #42in 2009
- Since 1957
- 138,617people given the name
The story in the numbers
86,635 girls have been named Peyton in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 5,317 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 56 → 168).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 46%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
Peyton is used for both sexes: 38% of its bearers are boys (51,982), most of them born around 2007.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Peyton was the 42nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Peyton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kailynnpeak 2011
- Maleighapeak 2009
- Brooklynpeak 2011
- Miahpeak 2012
- Cailynnpeak 2009
- Kaelynnpeak 2012
- Jaliahpeak 2011
- Lilyannepeak 2010
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.