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Paysen

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
PAY-sun
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Paysen is a name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Paysen mean?

English: spelling of Payson; English surname, probably meaning son of Pay

Also the name of towns in Arizona and Utah.

Meaning borrowed from Payson.

Is Paysen a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Paysen has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US.

How popular is Paysen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Paysen, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.

2025 had more girls named Paysen than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Paysen in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 61 girls in the US were given Paysen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,301, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.

2005Busiest: 35 in 20122025
Paysen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20246#13,472
20236#13,456
20226#13,586
20215#15,246
20206#13,448
20199#10,467
20187#12,459
20177#12,709
201612#8,872
201513#8,443
201422#5,795
201326#5,141
201235#4,214
201110#10,370
201019#6,638
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20057#13,003

Names like Paysen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Paysen

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Paysen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paysen, updated 20 October 2026.