Payton

“Payton”- some name of some greedy rich parent. The fact “pay-(a)-ton” is in it just makes a child seem very greedy.

I like this name, but I think I prefer the spelling Peyton though. A lot of people are saying Payton sounds like a boy’s name. Both spellings work well for a girl.

I like it as a girl's name, honestly. I don't get all of the hate, I think it's fine. I don't like this name on a boy, though. Just me personally. But there isn't anything wrong if this name were used on a boy.

Hello, my name is Ava and I love this name. I know I don’t have this name, but my friend does. Her name is Payton and she is a wonderful friend of mine. She is one of THE bestest friends you could ever ask for. For some, they think it’s a bad name or they don’t like it. While others, would suggest that it’s a good name. To be honest, everyone has opinions, but we also should encourage others to truly like their name. Like my friend Payton for example, she loves her beams either way and doesn’t care because she loves who she is even if others say no. I think it’s a wonderful name and we should all support others when it comes to comments because really people have a name you maybe don’t even like. What if someone didn’t like your name at all on this website and said that it was awful? So I think it’s a great name and I know you have opinions I am sorry if this is in a bad way I am suggesting that we should start saying at least a little of kindness on everyone’s name and actions because you never know what others are going through because everyone is going through rough times everywhere :)

I think it's fun to say, but I don't like it.

I don't like it for a girl or boy.

Not a girl's name. Please stop naming girls Payton.

Yuck. This name is 100% not my taste. I'm sorry to anyone who likes this name, but this name reminds me of an annoying toddler. I can't picture this name being good for anything.

I'm sorry but no matter how you spell it it won't matter... there is absolutely nothing feminine about this name. It is nicer and more unique than all the other similar ending sounding names and will be adorable on a little boy and grow nicely as he gets older and becomes a man. Now on a female... this is god awful. Everyone will associate the name with Peyton Manning and the other sports stars or actors named Peyton or Payton so giving it an a instead of an e won't make a bit of difference and will just make others cringe. I have seen far more males with this name almost no females and I wouldn't think spelling it "PAI" or ending it with "TYN" will make a lick of difference it is just far too strong and close to other nice popular male names like Aiden or Leyton/Layton but the "P" sounds stronger to me.

I definitely wouldn't name a boy Payton.

My opinion is that people shouldn't make fun of people who have the name Payton or Peyton or Paityn (that's how mine is spelled). My name is Paityn and people call me Peyton Manning though I'm a girl. I suggest a nickname like Pai or PayPay or Pay. My dad sometimes used to call me TinTin because of the sound "Tin" at the end of the name. I personally would recommend this name for parents because it is legible for both female and males.

My name is Peyton. I am a girl. My middle name is Riley. Not to be greedy or anything but I love my name and couldn't imagine it being anything other than this. Many friends and family members call me P-Ri, Pey Ri, and many more adorable nicknames. I have received hundreds of compliments on my name and not once has someone made a negative comment about it. All of my friends agree with me that Peyton is more of a girl's name and it sounds much for feminine than masculine. I have grown very well to the name and the name Peyton sounds and fits a women just as much as it fits a toddler or a baby. The name grows just as you do. (-:

Sounds like you're naming your child "Painting". I've never been a fan of this name. I don't like it for boys and I especially don't like it for girls and it's one of those names I wish wasn't on the charts. Peyton included, and any ridiculous spellings parents are using these days.

My name is Payton and I got made fun of for having a boy's name in elementary school.

I just turned 18 and my name's Payton, and seeing as it came into popularity more recently, I am older than most Payton's out there, so let me offer some insight. I was teased about having a "boy's" name when I was younger, but I love it now. I have found that with it being an androgynous name I get taken more seriously in professional settings than people with very feminine names. Even just over the phone without having met in real life I get a bit more respect. However, it is "girlish" enough not to be intimidating and I have received tons of positive comments on it. Just some of my personal experiences/ thoughts :)

I like this name, mainly as a middle name though. Its popularity is kind of unpredictable, and it sounds nice with a lot of 3-syllable names. My favorite is Alicia Payton.

Peyton boy, Payton, Paityn girl!

My daughter's name is Payton Addison, born 6.5.14. I wanted her first name to be simple but make it more feminine with her middle name. I love it, even if it is a unisex name. I don't know what you guys are talking about when you say the average American drops the t... that's not true. The t is always pronounced or else they would be saying pane. We do change the pronunciation of the o, making it sound more like Payten. There's nothing wrong with it being unisex. My name is Brettany but most people call me Brett and I don't mind it. I also don't think it makes me any less mature, intelligent or lady like just because of my name. That's ridiculous.

My name is Payton and I love my name. I am pretty tomboyish and right now I think it suits me. I have never gotten teased for my name. And thanks to the people calling my name rubbish. When I was littler my close adult friends called me Peyton Manning because my last name starts with an m.

This name is so adorable for a girl. I love it.
I hate it for a boy though.

My name is Payton and I am a 23 yo girl. I hated my name as a child because it wasn't popular in the 90s and everyone always thought it was boyish. I was named after my grandfather so this name definitely did not "come from no where" it was popular around the time he was born and grew even more popular from the series "Peyton Place" Now I love my name! I do prefer the spelling Payton just because pay is spelled pay not pey. There is a football player named Walter Payton and the other player is Peyton Manning. So there are both variations on the field. It is a little weird that it has become popular, I was the ONLY Payton in my elem, middle, and high school. So it's a little odd running into 4 yo Paytons. I am a nurse and love my name now that I am a nurse. It usually stikes up a conversation with my patients, whether they be older and they talk about Peyton Place or they are a football fan. So now at 23, a nurse, and a female, I LOVE my name! BTW, I a noticed that a lot of the Paytons here are September babies and so am I! Thought that was cool!

Well my name is Payton and I love my name. My mom got the name off of one tree hill and she's loved it ever since. I don't think my name is tomboyish because I am very girly. Oh and thanks to all the people calling my name "uneducated" and "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.

Ugly, uneducated, rubbish.

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!

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.

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.

Snobby.

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.

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

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.

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.

This is a nice name for a tomboyish girl.

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.

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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.

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.

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?

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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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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.