Is Payton a male or female name?
Payton is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 72%, based on 91,316 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 72%
- Sample size
- 91,316
- Confidence
- high
Payton by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 71% | 83,893 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 84% | 5,973 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | female | 92% | 1,383 | ons |
| France FR | female | 100% | 50 | insee |
| Poland PL | female | 100% | 6 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 4 | statat |
Attested in 11 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · FR · GB · IE · NZ · PL · US
Payton over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Payton in the 1910s were girls, against 88.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 0% | 118 |
| 1920s | 0% | 171 |
| 1930s | 0% | 131 |
| 1940s | 0% | 148 |
| 1950s | 0% | 122 |
| 1960s | 17% | 185 |
| 1970s | 18% | 248 |
| 1980s | 16% | 684 |
| 1990s | 60% | 12,014 |
| 2000s | 64% | 36,367 |
| 2010s | 84% | 27,572 |
| 2020s | 88% | 6,107 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Payton with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Payton&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Payton
Is Payton a male or female name?
Payton is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 72%, based on 91,316 observations.
Why can the result for Payton change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Payton identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.