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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1917
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.
Where Payson is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #672 | 9 | 1 in 3,636 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Payson
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 735 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
98 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2015 at #1,870 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,574
- 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 42.5% of all boys named Payson (613) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 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.
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