Payson — #2636 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Payson

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,406 babies named Payson between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Payson currently holds the #2636 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 78 babies received it in a single year. Payson is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,122 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Payson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 613 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Payson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arizona, which accounts for 146 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Payson in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Payson in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,406 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.