Peyton comes from an English surname meaning "Pega's settlement" — Pega being an Old English personal name.
Peyton entered the U.S. Today Peyton sits in the U.S. top 200.
Peyton does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Peyton reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.