Meaning not yet researched.
Payson: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,768 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,768 in 2011; #3,335 in 2025. About 57% of babies named Payson in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,335 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,768.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Payson: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,768 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 116 (2011).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Payson, making it the 3,335th most common girls’ name of the year, up 611 places from #3,946 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 38 girls named Payson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,768, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #2,640 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Payson, making it the 3,292nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 634 places from #2,658 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 50 boys named Payson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,885, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #1,885 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Payson in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 2,612 US babies have been given the name, 45% of them girls and 55% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,367 babies named Payson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 505 US girls were named Payson; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Passion (2,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paysen, Paisyn and Paycen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paysen (299), Paisyn (271), Paycen (99), Pason (28), Paesyn (21), Paison (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Payson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,335 | 36 | #3,292 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,946 | 50 | #2,658 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,927 | 46 | #2,792 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,812 | 39 | #3,140 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,700 | 51 | #2,579 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,825 | 51 | #2,535 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,600 | 47 | #2,724 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,429 | 56 | #2,376 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,958 | 59 | #2,262 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,092 | 71 | #2,023 |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,640 | 78 | #1,885 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,510 | 74 | #1,956 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,987 | 57 | #2,271 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,828 | 60 | #2,200 |
| 2011 | 116 | #1,768 | 51 | #2,467 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,198 | 60 | #2,203 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,004 | 72 | #1,972 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,400 | 37 | #3,150 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,431 | 49 | #2,556 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,180 | 27 | #3,750 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,313 | 43 | #2,599 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,456 | 38 | #2,780 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,105 | 27 | #3,421 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,918 | 39 | #2,537 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,793 | 37 | #2,605 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,527 | 32 | #2,847 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,256 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,164 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #7,103 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,104 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,928 | 13 | #4,719 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,217 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,966 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,196 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,819 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,092 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,454 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,290 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,406 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,592 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,436 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).