Payson is a name for all genders, somewhat more commonly used for boys.
Few children have been named Payson in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 children are currently called Payson. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Payson at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Payson is number *** on the list of most common first names.
In fact, the name Payson did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Payson seemed to be more popular than ever in 2012. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,411, 171 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Payson, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Payson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Payson a few times. Among all babies it ranked #3,577 - with a total of 100 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is pretty rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with a P. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Payson is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all first names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average.
If your name is Payson and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Payson, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Yoyo
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Payson
Payson
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
Y
S
O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
Y
S
O
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Payson sounds like this:
