Baby Boy Names - Payton

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The name Payton is of English origin, and is derived from the name of an English town. The table below indicates the number of times the name Payton has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Payton**
Use of the Name Payton for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
11,908	11,908	11,908	10,330	6,814	2,651	1,384

The table below indicates the number of times the name Payton has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Payton first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1986, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Payton**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1986	970	90
1987	930	104
1988	939	105
1989
1990	894	132
1991	811	163
1992	638	261	703	306
1993	573	320	484	522
1994	502	403	446	568
1995	511	400	408	637
1996	406	573	284	1,018
1997	363	684	225	1,335
1998	307	914	227	1,368
1999	304	945	230	1,393
2000	219	1,580	163	2,058
2001	255	1,312	164	1,983
2002	255	1,271	182	1,756
2003	258	1,267	203	1,617
2004	237	1,384	159	2,059
Totals:		11,908		16,620

During the last 125 years, parents have used Payton as a boy's name about 41% of the time and as a girl's name about 58% of the time. This name has been considered suitable for either boys or girls. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Payton appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

See the Social Security card applications information for qualifiers about the data shown on this page.

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