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How popular is “Payson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Payson” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Payson” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Payson” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Payson” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Payson” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Payson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Payson” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 -100%
1995 19 0.000005188 6 13 -37%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 -100%
1999 25 0.000006768 25 -100%
2000 41 0.000010847 9 32 -56%
2001 46 0.000012288 9 37 -61%
2002 47 0.000012573 8 39 -66%
2003 36 0.000009468 9 27 -50%
2004 46 0.000012039 8 38 -65%
2005 55 0.000014305 12 43 -56%
2006 36 0.0000091 9 27 -50%
2007 59 0.000014759 10 49 -66%
2008 47 0.000011957 10 37 -57%
2009 91 0.000023821 19 72 -58%
2010 149 0.000040317 89 60 19%
2011 167 0.000045656 116 51 39%
2012 171 0.000046755 111 60 30%
2013 156 0.000042791 99 57 27%
2014 146 0.000039392 72 74 -1%
2015 146 0.00003945 68 78 -7%
2016 125 0.000034072 54 71 -14%
2017 115 0.000032157 56 59 -3%
2018 102 0.000029011 46 56 -10%
2019 90 0.00002593 43 47 -4%
2020 89 0.000026642 38 51 -15%
2021 114 0.000033649 64 50 12%
2022 100 0.000029558 61 39 22%
2023 104 0.000031409 58 46 12%
2024 88 0.000026438 38 50 -14%

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