"Form of Payton"
The name Paighton is commonly a female name from the "English" origin.
Paighton is a modern respelling of Payton, an English surname that came into use as a given name. The spelling replaces ay with eigh, a pattern found in other recent American respellings of established names. The name first appears in United States birth records in 1996, which fits a recent respelling rather than an inherited given name.
Payton means "Village of the Warrior".
The pronunciation of Paighton is PAY-tun.
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