Name meaning & stats
Payten
Payten means “enclosure; settlement, town”. 3,975 US babies since 1940, peak 2009.
What it means
“enclosure; settlement, town”
Spelling of Payton
In US birth records
Peak year: 2009
3,975 US babies were named Payten between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Payten (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 25 Paytons spell it Payten
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2009)