as a Last Name
- 19,790
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Payton
Meaning & Origins
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from Peyton in Sussex, named the Old English personal name Pǣga + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, or from some other place similarly named. Peyton in Essex has probably not contributed; it has a quite different early etymology, and even in the 16th century it was still Pakenho or Patenhall.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 19,790
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Payton per capita
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