Payson

girls:

1.1k births since 1995

#4632 (19th percentile)

boys:

1.4k births since 1917

#3269 (29th percentile)

overall:

2.4k births since 1917

#5387 (30th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Payson".

1917 2023 19172023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,084
Peak Births
116
Peak Year
2011
First Recorded
1995
Peak Percentile
11.8%
Current Percentile
5.6%
Peak Rank
#829
Current Rank
#894
Female statistics
Total Births
1,356
Peak Births
78
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
8.1%
Current Percentile
4.5%
Peak Rank
#517
Current Rank
#870
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Payson

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Payson. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 82.2% confident that Payson is pronounced as PAY-suhn. The next most likely pronunciation is PAY-zuhn, at 17.8% confidence.

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PAY-suhn (2 syllables)
82.2% confidence
P EY1 S AH0 N
PAY-zuhn (2 syllables)
Verified
17.8% confidence
P EY1 Z AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Payson. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Payson, please vote using the thumbs up button.

PAY-slihn (2 syllables)
2 names 468 births
P EY1 S L IH0 N

Names with this pronunciation:

PAY-sihn (2 syllables)
3 names 279 births
P EY1 S IH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like P EY1 S AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.