Comments for the name Payton

Payton is my son's name and it fits him well. I really am glad I chose it despite it being for boys and girls. To me it's very masculine.

My daughter was born 9-14-04. However I wanted the spelling of her name to "look" feminine, since it's so commonly shared. So I decided to spell it "PAYTYN". We love it and have had several compliments!

My daughter's name is Payton, born Sept 03/2002. I gave her the name as it was really different and not a name that could be made fun of!

This name seems to be a real unisex name. Boy or girl I can't decide. My friend likes it for a girl.

Another name that seems to have come out of nowhere! This name is not bad, but I wonder how such names seem to suddenly become pretty popular very quickly when they didn't exist before.

My aunt wanted the name to be more feminine for my cousin. They spell it Paetan. I like it.

I know a few little girls named Payton, yet this has always been a boy's name, to me. There isn't anything feminine about it.

My 6 month old niece has this name, and it is an adorable name for a baby girl. They call her Pay-Pay. It's one of those names that can grow on you. At first I cringed when I heard it, but it's pretty cute now. I don't know how it will fit her when she's older, but as a baby name it's really unique.

I am finding that where I live Payton is used more for a girl and Peyton for a boy.

I'm sorry but I just do not understand why people choose these names! It's come out of nowhere straight to the popularity charts! All I see are toddlers and babies being called Payton or Emily! What is the world coming to?

A main female character on One Tree Hill is named Payton Sawyer. Also, there is the football player Payton Manning.

And let's not forget "Peyton Place."

I really dislike this name, especially for a girl. It's so ugly sounding. When the average American says it, it sounds like Pay-n. The "T" sound completely disappears, and I just think it's such an ugly sound.

To the comment above, what average American are you hearing? Pay-n? Pay-TON. How could someone not pronounce the T?

In defense of BlueSomehow, we Americans DO drop our T's a lot. Examples are the way we say words like, "frighten" and "satin". Very few of us say "fry-tin" or "sa-tin"; we generally say "fryt-n" and "sat-n" with the T being insinuated at the end of the first syllable and not fully said at the beginning of the second syllable where it belongs. It may be "imperfect" pronunciation but it has come to be almost universal in American speech. Let's face it, all languages are constantly morphing. Watch old movies from the 1930's -- Lauren Bacall and Don Ameche didn't sound like we do now. Their accents were almost British to modern American ears. A sentence like, "what are you going to do" has become "waddyagonnadoo", and honestly, if you articulated your words in that sentence to perfection, people would think you were on something or a foreigner fresh from Berlitz! It is sad that we don't take more care and that we mostly follow the herd and cave-in to lazy pronunciation of our language. But. Waddyagonnadoo?

To those who left comments regarding their astonishment and apparent disapproval of the emergence of new names like "Payton": What's the big deal? How do you think names ever get started to begin with? Someone, somewhere a long time ago had to decide a certain set of sounds, like "fran" and "sis" sounded good together and decided to name their kid Francis! In a hundred years there will be a blog like this where old timers will comment, "And whatever became of the good ol' names like 'Payton'?" You watch and see.

I grew up with a girl named Paiton (my personal favorite spelling, boy or girl, but probably because it's the one I'm familiar with), and she was the only one I knew until I was in middle school (where one of our teachers had a 20 year old son named Peyton). I've only recently met my third Peyton, a newborn who was named after the football player.

Still, regardless of spelling or the fact that there's a 2:1 ratio, Payton/Paiton/Peyton is still a girls name to me. I guess it's all about first impressions.

This is a nice name for a tomboyish girl.

Truly, this is not one of my favorite names. I don't really like the sound. But it really does sound like a name for a tomboyish girl.

It's not a bad name on males at all, even though I prefer the spelling Peyton, but I really don't like it on females. It sounds too boyish on any other girls than tomboys, and it will only sound natural on young, spunky, either androgynous or indie looking women, not on more ''mature'' women.

This name does not sound even remotely feminine in my opinion. It should be left for the boys.

This is one of those few names that I honestly can't decide if I like it more on a boy or a girl. I know a Payton that is a boy and a Peyton that is a girl. I do think the e is more girly and the a more masculine. We call the boy Payt (PAAt) long a and the girl Peyton Eli like Payton and Eli Manning. Her middle name is Elizabeth.

Snobby.

I really like Payton as a girls name. For me, it sounds really sweet, and I like names with harder sounds for boys. This is a very nice name, short and simple. Really pretty.

I hate this name. It doesn't sound one bit feminine. It's also part of the annoying trend of using last names as first names. I'll pass.

This is my sister's name and I love it, Not only because of how it sounds but she spells it "Peiyton", I love it!

Ugly, uneducated, rubbish.

Not a huge fan of this name, but it has its own charms I suppose. I prefer the spelling Peyton. Also, to everyone on here noting the football player, he spells it Peyton NOT Payton.