Payton

Payton is the 1,549th most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,613 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,200.

By the numbers

People: 22,613
Rank: 1,549th
How common: 1 in 13,200
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from a minor place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name Pǣga + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Payton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 49.7%
Black, not Hispanic 40.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Payton

Barbara Payton (1927–1967)American actress

People named Payton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Payton

Also a first name

Payton has been given to 84,784 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2009. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.