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How popular is “Peyson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Peyson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Peyson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Peyson” 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
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2010 29 0.000007847 18 11 24%
2011 24 0.000006561 19 5 58%
2012 35 0.00000957 19 16 9%
2013 24 0.000006583 18 6 50%
2014 23 0.000006206 9 14 -22%
2015 26 0.000007025 14 12 8%
2016 18 0.000004906 10 8 11%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 10 0.000002952 5 5 0%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 -100%
2023 12 0.000003624 7 5 17%

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