Fun Facts About the Name Peighton
- More than 2 thousand babies named Peighton: U.S. records list 2,832 babies given the name Peighton from 1880 through 2025. Even 93 boys received the name Peighton - about 1 boy for every 29 girls.
What Does the Name Peighton Mean?
Peighton is a modern spelling of Peyton, an English surname that comes from a place name in Norfolk, England. That place name is generally explained as the Old English personal name Pæga joined to tūn, meaning "enclosure, settlement, town," so the sense is "Pæga's settlement." The first element is a personal name rather than a descriptive word, which means the literal meaning depends on who Pæga was, not on any quality of the place.
The -eigh spelling follows the pattern of names such as Leighton and Keighley. It does not point to a different origin or a different meaning: Peighton and Peyton are the same name, pronounced alike, and the change is one of spelling only.
Peighton Name History & Origins
The Norfolk place that produced the surname is recorded in medieval England, and the surname Peyton appears in English records from the Middle Ages, associated with families in Norfolk, where the place name lies. In English usage such surnames were inherited within families; when bearers emigrated, first to New England and later to other parts of America, Peyton traveled with them as a family surname.
Like many English surnames, Peyton also came into use as a first name, at first occasionally and often to preserve a mother's or grandmother's family name. The practice of turning surnames into given names became widespread in the United States, and Peyton became a familiar American given name in the later 20th century.
Peyton is also the name of the New England town in Grace Metalious's novel Peyton Place (1956) and in the films and television series based on it. That use made the word widely recognizable, but the name already existed as a surname and as an occasional given name.
Peighton is a later respelling rather than an inherited historical form. It belongs to a modern fashion for -eigh spellings in names and is used chiefly in the United States. It has no separate documented history; its history is the history of Peyton carried forward under a changed spelling.
How Popular is the Name Peighton?
Peighton has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2010. Its best rank was #1,268 in 2010.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,666 | 22 | 0.0014% |
| 2024 | #4,976 | 27 | 0.0017% |
| 2023 | #3,167 | 52 | 0.0032% |
| 2022 | #3,401 | 47 | 0.0029% |
| 2021 | #3,199 | 51 | 0.0031% |
| 2020 | #2,618 | 65 | 0.0040% |
| 2019 | #1,957 | 100 | 0.0060% |
| 2018 | #2,094 | 92 | 0.0054% |
| 2017 | #1,840 | 112 | 0.0065% |
| 2016 | #1,578 | 141 | 0.0080% |
| 2015 | #1,573 | 140 | 0.0078% |
| 2014 | #1,514 | 146 | 0.0082% |
| 2013 | #1,344 | 174 | 0.0099% |
| 2012 | #1,282 | 187 | 0.0106% |
| 2011 | #1,298 | 182 | 0.0103% |
| 2010 | #1,268 | 189 | 0.0106% |
| 2009 | #1,372 | 174 | 0.0095% |
| 2008 | #1,709 | 131 | 0.0069% |
| 2007 | #2,417 | 79 | 0.0041% |
| 2006 | #2,503 | 74 | 0.0039% |
| 2005 | #2,600 | 66 | 0.0036% |
| 2004 | #2,671 | 62 | 0.0034% |
| 2003 | #2,950 | 52 | 0.0028% |
| 2002 | #2,880 | 52 | 0.0029% |
| 2001 | #2,914 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 2000 | #2,302 | 68 | 0.0037% |
| 1999 | #3,487 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 1998 | #2,720 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 1997 | #3,350 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 1996 | #3,702 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 1995 | #5,619 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1994 | #6,975 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1993 | #6,936 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1992 | #8,551 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | #9,521 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #9,472 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #9,452 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2015 | #10,343 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #13,525 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #9,438 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2012 | #10,477 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2011 | #7,372 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #10,467 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #8,731 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #8,897 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1998 | #8,223 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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