Peighton
#5,665 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Peighton has been given to 2,833 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,665 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 189 recorded.
Babies named Peighton, 2025
1 in 151,000
Peighton over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Peighton?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 151,000
- 22 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 73,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,665
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 104,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Peighton sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peighton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Peightons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Peighton was born before 2011 — so the typical Peighton is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,740
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (1,463).
Is Peighton rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −675
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,043
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,092
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.16×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.6%
- Peak was 2010 (189)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.6% average annual change
Spellings of Peighton
Peighton is not the most common spelling — Leighton is, with 71.7% against Peighton's 15.8%.
Where Peighton is used
Across 2016–2025, Peighton was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 39,435 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Peighton around the world
Where Peighton ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2008–2024#4,844in 2024
- Scotland2018–2018#809in 2018
- Canada2004–2018#3,384in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Peighton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Peighton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Peighton
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Peighton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Peighton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.