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In the entire world, Paton (Paton , ペイトン, Патон ) is a rare unisex first name. The first name Paton is habitual in Philippines, where it is a very rare predominantly masculine, but scarcely feminine name, the United States, and South Africa, where it is a very rare dominantly male, but infrequently feminine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in India, the United States, and Philippines. More frequently, Paton is the last name as well as the forename.
Paton is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Peyton Farquhar , the main character of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; Darkman , the title character of the film Darkman and its sequels and Peyton Sawyer , the fictional human, One Tree Hill.