# Peighton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/peighton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,833 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 93 / 2,740 (97% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 130, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 182 | 1,298 |
| 2012 | 187 | 1,282 |
| 2013 | 174 | 1,344 |
| 2014 | 146 | 1,514 |
| 2015 | 140 | 1,573 |
| 2016 | 141 | 1,578 |
| 2017 | 112 | 1,840 |
| 2018 | 92 | 2,095 |
| 2019 | 100 | 1,959 |
| 2020 | 65 | 2,622 |
| 2021 | 51 | 3,201 |
| 2022 | 47 | 3,401 |
| 2023 | 53 | 3,131 |
| 2024 | 27 | 4,993 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,666 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | 8,223 |
| 2005 | 8 | 8,899 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,731 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,467 |
| 2011 | 11 | 7,374 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,479 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,439 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,529 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,346 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,453 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,476 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,523 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,521 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,659 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,496 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,901 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,449 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.