Gender-neutral · #199 in 2025

Peyton

Peyton: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#199
Born 2025
1,559
Peak year
2009

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Peyton per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2009. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Peyton has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 34% of its 2009 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 79% of children named Peyton were recorded as girls and 21% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

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Sounds good with

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