Peyton

9,947 people in the United States were counted with the surname Peyton in the 2020 census, making it the 3,498th most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,947
Rank: 3,498th
How common: 1 in 30,000
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Variant of Payton.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.0%
Black, not Hispanic 18.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Peyton

Gerry Peyton (born 1956)association football coach and former player
Brad Peyton (born 1978)Canadian director and writer

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

Also a first name

Peyton has been given to 140,602 American babies as a first name since 1884, 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.