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[glitterintheair.livejournal.com]

What do you think of the name Payton used on a male?

Better on a boy or girl?/prefered spelling? What comes to mind when you think of a little boy named Payton?

My aunt is due in a few weeks with a little boy, they have a son Riley and are thinking of naming this one Payton seeing as its the ONLY name of thousands that her and her hubby both adore, considering that Riley is also unisex would that change your vote?

TIA =)

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[tinylittlestars.livejournal.com]

I like it spelled Peyton.

But I really like it :)

[thorabrighid.livejournal.com]

I only know male Paytons. It's weird if i hear a girl named that. I like the name though. I like the a spelling better than the e. I think Peyton looks to much like a last name.

[cocinadelfeto.livejournal.com]

I think of Peyton Manning.

[springtide-hfa.livejournal.com]

I only knoe Peyton Sawyer from One Tree Hill, and it's a girl.
Therefore, I see it as a girls' name.

[springtide-hfa.livejournal.com]

know*

[redemptionsongs.livejournal.com]

I have a 13 yer old nephew named Payton, so I see it as a boy's name.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it spelled with an a. I like Peyton for a boy though and it's not unisex to me. *shrug*

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

was Payton the WWII guy who was crazy and war hungry? either way it sounds like a guy's name to me, a guy's LAST name.

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

I love Peyton on a girl... I don't like it on a boy, IMO it ages horribly... I cannot picture a grown man named "Payton".

[kati-d.livejournal.com]

Ive seen this name used equally on boys and girls. I love it for both. Peyton is my prefered spelling for use with a boy. I think it goes great with Riley for a sibset!

I know a family with three kids: Parker(b), Peyton(b) and Paige(g)

[kati-d.livejournal.com]

and the only thing I think of is Peyton Manning the football player... so I guess thats a good association... he is quite attractive!

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

I like Peyton, on a girl. I'm not sure I like it on a boy.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I always think of it as a boys name. maybe it's because I think of walter payton, and can't see naming a little girl after a football player!

then, I don't like last-names-as-first-names, so I don't like it on either, but I'd prefer to see it on a boy.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Are you thinking of General PATTON?

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I think of Peyton Manning too, so I picture it on a boy, and it grows up just fine, because Peyton Manning is an adult and he's pretty darn awesome (and cute!)

It's becoming unisex to me, but still mostly a boy's name.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

Ah, one letter off. Yeah, my husband's grandma always brags about how her father served with him and how great Patton was.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Well, if the Patton we are talking about is General George C. Patton Jr., he WAS pretty great. In 1943, before the US entered the war, he helped take Sicily back for its citizens, After the US entered the war, among other things he commanded the Third Army, which liberated more than 18,000 square miles of territory. He developed a policy after liberating concentration camps of making German civilians tour the camps, so that they knew and understood the terror their leader had caused for their Jewish neighbors. I think that is a really thoughtful and brave move--Patton didn't assume that all Germans were Hitler-lovers and Jew-haters, but he did assume that they didn't fully understand what was going on. For war-time, that is a very human, vulnerable thing to do, and it shows tremendous sympathy for the "enemy."

Picture it!

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Here's a grown man named "Peyton" :)

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

Funny, the part his grandma emphasizes, even though she loves him, is that he said something like "God help/damn me, but I love war." That although he was a great general, he thrived off of it too.

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Ditto. =]

Re: Picture it!

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

:-D

You beat me to it!

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I hate Payton/Peyton. It's a trite, overused name. It's just BORING. It's bland, it has no substance to it. Plus, loads of little girls are being named Peyton now.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

but... you could picture a grown woman named Peyton?

[peach-rose-girl.livejournal.com]

Peyton is better. I like it, but it's too popular I think.

It's a little too trendy for me, and sort of goes with the whole Brendon/Braeden/Hayden/Jayden thing. The only name I really like in that style is Aidan, which is WAY too popular now.

It's fine for a boy or a girl. I don't know the original use, but it seems to be one of those pretty evenly-distributed unisex names.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would be bad, and that's the downfall of military careers--he led in WWI and II...all he knew was war.

God help America if that's what we revert to.

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

Wait ... "In 1943, before the US entered the war"

Didn't the US enter the war in 1941? Pearl Harbor and all that?

[asouthernthing.livejournal.com]

Peyton's sort of unisex. My cousins had a stillborn baby boy that they had planned to name Peyton, and then oddly named their next child (a girl) Peyton. It goes both ways, but I think it's overused.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Haha...total typo. I don't *know* all this info exactly in my head, so I was reading and typing at the same time. YES, US entered war in Dec. of 1941. But in 1943, before Patton was given command of the 3rd army...

Thanks for catching my history Feaux Pas (or however you spell it)!

my source was www.generalpatton.com. Maybe it's not the best, but it was clear. :)