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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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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#283 · 1 in 1,096
- Utah#357 · 1 in 1,768
- Arizona#562 · 1 in 3,993
Best ever in a state: #283 in Idaho, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #283 | 8 | 1 in 1,096 |
| Utah | #357 | 13 | 1 in 1,768 |
| Arizona | #562 | 10 | 1 in 3,993 |
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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
- 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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 96,690 of them was named Payson, which outranked 66.3% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,544Zitlali20
- #6,544Zori20
- #6,544Zyria20
- #6,811Payson19
- #6,811Abrar19
- #6,811Abri19
- #6,811Adama19
- #7,066Aadhya18
- #7,066Abagale18
- #7,066Abiageal18
Tied with 254 names at #6,811; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 27,550 of them was named Payson, which outranked 86.5% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,942Rush73
- #1,942Trayvon73
- #1,942Wendell73
- #1,959Payson72
- #1,959Aharon72
- #1,959Aston72
- #1,959Eitan72
- #1,975Akshay71
- #1,975Avian71
- #1,975Barack71
Tied with 15 names at #1,959; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.