Paymon

Boys' name

Possibly pact, promise, commitment

Paymon has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Paymon, 1995

1 in 366,000

Paymon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paymon: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly pact, promise, commitment

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Paymon means

Paymon may mean “pact, promise, commitment”, associated with paymān.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Classical Persian پیمان (paymān, literally “pact, promise, commitment”), possibly transmitted via Tajik Паймон (Paymon) based on transliteration.

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Origin, language, and formation

Paymon is used in English.

Paymon comes through fa-cls پیمان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include پیمان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Paymon between 1981 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,855 in 1984.

How common is Paymon?

Paymon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995: 1 in 366,000; 10 of 3,660,254 births
Among boys only: 1 in 190,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1995: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 253,711 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Paymon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 253,711 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paymon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paymons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paymon was born before 1990 — so the typical Paymon is around 35 today.

Median birth year: 1990; About 35 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 57; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Paymon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1995 (10)
Years since peak: 30; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,855; 1984

Spellings of Paymon

Paymon is not the most common spelling — Raymond is, with 60.1% against Paymon's <0.01%.

Raymond60.1%779,794
Ramon6.0%77,429
Damon5.3%68,841
Waylon4.2%55,048
Peyton4.0%52,383
Jayson2.8%35,931
Paxton2.2%28,194
Payton1.9%24,739

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Paymon is used

Across 1910–2025, Paymon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Paymon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Paymon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,855; 1984
Peak year: 1995; 10 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 1995
All-time count: 57
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Paymon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Paycen Saimon Paytin Paysen Paydon Payce Usmon Reymon Rahmon Caymon Jasmon Fremon Jaimon Leemon Dammon Trumon Garmon Imon Lehmon Kaymon Jazmon Jahmon Aemon Beamon

Sibling names for Paymon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Salena Corrina Darby Alexandrea Iman Breonna Fabiola Berenice

For a brother

Hernan Rashawn Travon Madison Austen Deonte Denton Austyn

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