Payton

name

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Definitions

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

Etymology

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

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