Peyton — #168 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Peyton

The Social Security Administration has registered 86,635 babies named Peyton between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Peyton currently holds the #168 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 5,317 babies received it in a single year. Peyton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 51,982 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Peyton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 39,609 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Peyton shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7,450 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Peyton in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Peyton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 86,635 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.