Payton Family History
Payton Name Meaning
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from Peyton
in Sussex, named the Old English personal name P?ga + Old
English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, or from some other
place similarly named. Peyton in Essex has probably not contributed;
it has a quite different early etymology, and even in the 16th century
it was still Pakenho or Patenhall.Irish (mainly
County Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Peatáin
‘descendant of Peatán’, a pet form of the personal name
Pádraig (see Patrick). Outside County Donegal, the
name is apparently mainly of English origin (see 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Payton Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Payton families
 180 - 357  61 - 179 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Payton families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Payton Family Origin
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Payton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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