Payton

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Payton: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Payton: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #96 in 2010, and it stood at #384 in 2024.

5registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#96highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#1666
1998	#1480
1999	#1970
2000	#2167
2001	#1728
2002	#4137
2003	#1628
2004	#3197
2005	#1690
2006	#2137
2007	#1502
2008	#1065
2009	#738
2010	#521
2011	#692
2012	#573
2013	#712
2014	#688
2015	#775
2016	#676
2017	#740
2018	#778
2019	#1095
2020	#872
2021	#936
2022	#910
2023	#921
2024	#1353

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #384 among girls in Scotland, #1353 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1522 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Payton appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 939 births with the name.

Payton across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Payton's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#521 (2010)	#1353 (2024)	29 of 29	939 (1996–2024)	77 (2010)
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1786 (2018)	#4991 (2023)	19 of 28	103 (1996–2023)	13 (2018)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#324 (2010)	#355 (2017)	3 of 10	12 (2008–2017)	5 (2010)

Payton by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Payton in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	41	4 of 10	10
2000s	154	10 of 10	15
2010sbusiest	566	10 of 10	57
2020s	178	5 of 10	36

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 57 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births rose by 28, from 49 to 77.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Payton appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2010.

Payton's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1353	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#921	38	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#936	37	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#872	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1095	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#778	49	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#740	54	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#676	62	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#775	50	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#688	57	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#712	56	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#573	74	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#692	56	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#521	77	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#738	49	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1065	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1690	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2010	New Zealand	female	#96	44	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#324	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #96, first reached in 2010.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 77 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cohen · #96, 30y
Niko · #96, 29y
Skylar · #96, 28y
Maverick · #97, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Autumn · #96, 30y
Cohen · #96, 30y
Embla · #96, 33y
Keanu · #96, 30y

Payton was ranked #96 in New Zealand · Girls in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Payton and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Payton without appearing here.

Payton moved ahead of

Maren Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #5061.
Malin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1065 and #3860.
Brooke Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2512 and #4812.
Vicki Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3197 and #3197 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1690 and #3970.

Moved ahead of Payton

Gustav Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2682 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #2320.
Espen Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2682 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3449.
Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2941 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2613 and #1398.
Olive Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1970 and #2444 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #2167 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Payton

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 while Albie went from #853 to #22.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 while Alfred went from #218 to #76.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 while Archie went from #192 to #13.

Moved the same way as Payton

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 and Aaron from #33 to #146.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 and Adam from #16 to #41.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 and Alan from #163 to #464.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Payton went from #2863 to #4991 and Alex from #43 to #152.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Payton

Payton at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Payton across 3 official records

Payton by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Payton appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Payton and the names beside it

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Payton at a glance

Payton across 3 official records

Payton by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Payton appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Payton

Payton and the names beside it

Payton moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Payton

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