Payson
#3,296 for girls in 2025, 47 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 55.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,443since 1917
Payson over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,296 | 47 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,891 | 58 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | #2,792 | 61 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 | #2,552 | 51 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | #3,396 | 46 | #2,355 | 56 |
| 2017 | #2,925 | 56 | #2,240 | 59 |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 | #2,012 | 71 |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #2,497 | 72 | #1,945 | 74 |
| 2013 | #1,977 | 99 | #2,250 | 57 |
| 2012 | #1,823 | 111 | #2,185 | 60 |
| 2011 | #1,758 | 116 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #2,185 | 89 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #1,959 | 72 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #2,533 | 49 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #2,567 | 43 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,741 | 38 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #2,805 | 32 |
| 1999 | — | #3,182 | 25 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
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| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Payson! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1931, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Payson
- 603 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #3,240)
- 735 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #3,240)
- 1,370 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #3,240)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2015 at #1,870 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,574 boys born in 2015 were named Payson (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.5% of all boys named Payson (613) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 10 | #3,959 (1929) | #4,055 |
| 1930s | 7 | #3,092 (1932) | #3,092 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,038 (1960) | #4,038 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,385 (1982) | #6,385 |
| 1990s | 124 | #3,092 (1998) | #4,906 |
| 2000s | 401 | #1,959 (2009) | #2,783 |
| 2010s | 613 | #1,870 (2015) | #2,218 |
| 2020s | 273 | #2,505 (2020) | #2,801 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Payson in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 24,810 of them was named Payson, which outranked 87.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,469Therese73
- #2,469Xena73
- #2,469Zamiyah73
- #2,497Payson72
- #2,497Alliyah72
- #2,497Alysson72
- #2,497Analiyah72
- #2,517Adara71
- #2,517Agatha71
- #2,517Anisha71
Tied with 19 names at #2,497; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 25,958 of them was named Payson, which outranked 86.2% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,920Tim75
- #1,920Virgil75
- #1,920Westen75
- #1,945Payson74
- #1,945Aayush74
- #1,945Baxter74
- #1,945Braulio74
- #1,959Aiyden73
- #1,959Beckam73
- #1,959Blair73
Tied with 13 names at #1,945; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.