HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Payson

A human name, held in the Social Security file. It is not in the Administration’s index of agent names, and it has no classification.

Table 1. Payson, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	3,335
2025 number	47
Peak year	2015
Peak rank	1,885
Years present	41 of 146
Dog licences, New York	4
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Payson was given to 47 girls in 2025, ranking 3,335th for the year. It peaked in 2015, when it ranked 1,885th and went to 78 babies. It has appeared in 41 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 490 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Payson

Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

Villain probability

58%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, one sibilant, ends on a consonant. The canon has no entry, so this is the sound of the name and nothing else.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

As recorded on the Social Security card application. Names given to fewer than five babies of a sex in a year are not published, so the file is a floor.