Peyton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: English surname/place name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpeɪtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peyton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 21st most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 14Kas Payton(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16Kas Payton
- IEIreland≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Peyton itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 447 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 named Payton, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Payton in US United States, GB United Kingdom, LR Liberia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English surname/place name
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peyton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Peyton | 10 |
| US United States | #859 | 23,670as Payton | 1 in 14K | 69K | Payton | 447 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 2.3K | Payton | 151 |
| LR Liberia | #21 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Payton | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Peyton | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Peyton | 43 |
| AR Argentina | — | 33 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Hopkins Peytonb. 1808USAmerican politician (1808-1845)
- Harley Peytonb. 1901USAmerican screenwriter
- Gerry Peytonb. 1956GBassociation football coach and former player
- Kimberly Marie Peytonb. 1957USAmerican swimmer (1957–1986)
- Jeff Strykerb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actor
- Elizabeth Peytonb. 1965USAmerican artist (born 1965)
- Ben Peytonb. 1977actor
- Brad Peytonb. 1978CACanadian director and writer
- Claudia Jessieb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress and singer
- Marlowe Peytonb. 2004USAmerican actor and music producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.9K | #3,498 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.8K | #3,344 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 33 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Peyton mean, and where does it come from?
- English surname/place name Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Peyton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Payton in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Peyton?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 33 people named Peyton, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Peyton compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Peyton is the 21st most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Peyton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpeɪtən/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Peyton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peytonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peyton” — the 21st most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.