Origin of the name Payton:
Transferred use of the English surname, which is from the place-name Payton in Devon. The name is thought to be derived from the obsolete Anglo-Saxon personal name Pægan and the Old English tūn (town, settlement, village).
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Peyton Sawyer, a character from the CW's "One Tree Hill"
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- #36 in Canada (Alberta)
- #60 in United States
- #331 in Scotland
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