Payton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A habitational surname from Old English.
  2. A unisex given name:
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  4. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

Word forms

Payton Paytons Peyton

Etymology

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

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