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How popular is “Payton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Payton” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Payton” 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 “Payton” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Payton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Payton” 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
1880 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 -100%
1918 21 0.000009672 21 -100%
1919 19 0.000009004 19 -100%
1920 17 0.000007513 17 -100%
1921 18 0.00000771 18 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 23 0.000009989 23 -100%
1924 16 0.000006718 16 -100%
1925 19 0.000008143 19 -100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 20 0.000008846 20 -100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 -100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 -100%
1931 14 0.000006653 14 -100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 -100%
1933 13 0.000006502 13 -100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 -100%
1935 18 0.000008613 18 -100%
1936 10 0.000004813 10 -100%
1937 16 0.000007509 16 -100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 -100%
1939 17 0.000007715 17 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 22 0.000006885 22 -100%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 -100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 -100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 21 0.000005449 21 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 -100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1961 15 0.000003621 15 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 -100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 -100%
1965 19 0.000005241 19 -100%
1966 29 0.000008344 18 11 24%
1967 31 0.000009131 14 17 -10%
1968 18 0.000005328 18 -100%
1969 21 0.000006043 21 -100%
1970 21 0.000005823 21 -100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 -100%
1972 25 0.000007954 6 19 -52%
1973 18 0.000005966 18 -100%
1974 18 0.000005921 5 13 -44%
1975 20 0.000006624 5 15 -50%
1976 23 0.00000758 5 18 -57%
1977 22 0.000006926 9 13 -18%
1978 41 0.000012918 9 32 -56%
1979 31 0.000009318 6 25 -61%
1980 38 0.000011032 8 30 -58%
1981 30 0.000008672 8 22 -47%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 -100%
1983 29 0.000008373 6 23 -59%
1984 43 0.000012325 43 -100%
1985 52 0.000014569 13 39 -50%
1986 103 0.000028956 13 90 -75%
1987 126 0.000034946 22 104 -65%
1988 128 0.000034641 22 106 -66%
1989 115 0.000029913 18 97 -69%
1990 155 0.000039216 23 132 -70%
1991 208 0.000053398 45 163 -57%
1992 569 0.000148128 307 262 8%
1993 842 0.000223326 522 320 24%
1994 969 0.000260648 568 401 17%
1995 1038 0.00028344 638 400 23%
1996 1594 0.000437048 1018 576 28%
1997 2020 0.000557126 1336 684 32%
1998 2282 0.000620411 1368 914 20%
1999 2341 0.000633753 1394 947 19%
2000 3639 0.000962723 2058 1581 13%
2001 3298 0.00088102 1983 1315 20%
2002 3031 0.000810798 1758 1273 16%
2003 2887 0.000759273 1619 1268 12%
2004 3473 0.000908943 2077 1396 20%
2005 3613 0.0009397 2184 1429 21%
2006 3449 0.000871799 2158 1291 25%
2007 3515 0.000879259 2284 1231 30%
2008 4852 0.001234397 3612 1240 49%
2009 4618 0.001208845 3646 972 58%
2010 4479 0.001211936 3589 890 60%
2011 3871 0.001058289 3151 720 63%
2012 3544 0.000969003 2946 598 66%
2013 3129 0.000858279 2619 510 67%
2014 2824 0.00076193 2414 410 71%
2015 2481 0.000670375 2117 364 71%
2016 2082 0.000567504 1801 281 73%
2017 1938 0.000541917 1650 288 70%
2018 1665 0.000473563 1428 237 72%
2019 1600 0.000460971 1422 178 78%
2020 1507 0.00045112 1331 176 77%
2021 1322 0.000390207 1168 154 77%
2022 1241 0.00036682 1097 144 77%
2023 1111 0.000335528 991 120 78%
2024 937 0.000281508 820 117 75%

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