How common is the surname Payton?

23,670 people in the United States had the surname Payton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,044 Americans. It ranked 1,515th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Payton getting more or less common?

More common. 22,773 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,670 in 2010, up 3.9%.

Is Payton also a first name?

Yes. Payton is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Payton

An English place surname, carried by 23,670 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P350 Also a first name

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Payton is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a minor place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name Pǣga + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Payton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 23,670 people named Payton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 13,044 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 22,773.

#1,515

rank among US surnames

23,670

people in 2010

8.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,440)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,506	Devine	23,775	12,986
#1,507	Crockett	23,769	12,989
#1,508	Benavides	23,761	12,994
#1,509	Bullard	23,755	12,997
#1,510	Louis	23,738	13,006
#1,511	Steiner	23,735	13,008
#1,512	Coates	23,725	13,014

Who is named Payton

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

54% of people named Payton identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 54%
Black (not Hispanic) 40%
Two or more races 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Peyton

Surnames that sound like Payton

Payton has the Soundex code P350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P350.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Payton come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name Pǣga + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Payton?: 23,670 people in the United States had the surname Payton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,044 Americans. It ranked 1,515th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Payton?: In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Payton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Payton?: Payton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Payton getting more or less common?: More common. 22,773 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,670 in 2010, up 3.9%.
What are other spellings of Payton?: Peyton.
Is Payton also a first name?: Yes. Payton is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.