Peyten is a spelling variant of Peyton, an English surname-name meaning "Pacca's town" or "Pega's settlement."
Peyten is a softened variant of Peyton (also spelled Payton), an English surname of Old English origin. The place-name root is likely "Pæga's tūn" — Pæga being a personal name and tūn meaning settlement or estate — pointing to a specific corner of English countryside that became a family name and, centuries later, a given name.
The Peyton form arrived in American first-name usage in the mid-20th century, carried forward by family surnames pressed into service as given names, a tradition especially strong in the American South. The name received a significant cultural boost from Peyton Manning, the NFL quarterback whose long career made the name synonymous with composure under pressure. But Peyton and its variants have been embraced overwhelmingly for girls since the late 1990s, particularly through the character Peyton Sawyer on the television drama One Tree Hill (2003–2012), whose brooding artistic sensibility gave the name a distinctly feminine, emotionally expressive dimension. The Peyten spelling, with its softened vowel, leans further into that feminine reinvention, distinguishing the bearer from the more common forms while retaining the name's easy, open-voweled sound and its quiet air of self-assurance.