Peighton
Peighton was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,665 among girls’ names; 2,833 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Peighton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Peighton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Peighton?
#5,665 among girls’ names, 2025
Peighton fell from #1,573 in 2015 to #5,665 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 78.4 to 13.7 per million.
196 babies in 2010, the peak
Peighton peaked in 2010, when 196 babies were given it (189 girls, #1,268 among girls’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,665 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,990 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,131 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,400 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,201 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,622 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,959 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,095 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,578 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 140 | #1,573 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 146 | #1,514 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,344 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 187 | #1,282 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 182 | #1,298 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 174 | #1,373 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 131 | #1,709 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,417 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,504 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,596 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,668 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,947 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,910 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,298 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,484 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,717 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,347 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,697 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,614 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,969 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,930 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,545 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Peighton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,833 Americans recorded as Peighton, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Peighton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Peighton, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,833 Americans ever recorded as Peighton. The median Peighton alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,258 people named Peighton (2,155 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,565 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 81 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Peighton born?
The states with the most babies named Peighton are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 277 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 120 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 93 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 79 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 70 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 58 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 51 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Peighton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Peighton is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1992 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Peighton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,995 babies since 1880, Peighton is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 22 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Peighton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Peighton and names like it
- Compare Peighton and PeightynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPeighton peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Peighton since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Peighton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Peighton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.