Payton

girls:

58.5k births since 1966

#526 (91st percentile)

boys:

24.5k births since 1880

#733 (84th percentile)

overall:

83k births since 1880

#780 (90th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Payton".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
58,491
Peak Births
3,645
Peak Year
2010
First Recorded
1966
Peak Percentile
91.7%
Current Percentile
69.1%
Peak Rank
#79
Current Rank
#293
Female statistics
Total Births
24,506
Peak Births
1,581
Peak Year
2000
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
74.0%
Current Percentile
12.5%
Peak Rank
#202
Current Rank
#797
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Payton

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Payton. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 87.8% confident that Payton is pronounced as PAY-tuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is PAY-tihn, at 12.2% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Payton. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Payton, please vote using the thumbs up button.

PAY-teen (2 syllables)
8 names 7.4k births
P EY1 T IY0 N
PAY-duhn (2 syllables)
10 names 4.5k births
P EY1 D AH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like P EY1 T AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.