We're talking about the temperate fruit pawpaw, not the tropical fruit papaya which is commonly called "paw-paw".

Woah, America has its own pawpaw, that's nuts :)

I think the global use for the other fruit is far more dominant, you guys should consider switching to using the term 'Asimina'. Wikipedia says some people call it 'prairie banana', too. I've eaten that somewhere but can't remember where. Not bad, but not as nice as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona_squamosa which we get here also.

I haven't heard "paw-paw" in place of "papaya" outside of Asia, so I wouldn't call that global. We're not going to change the lyrics of all our old pawpaw-celebrating folk songs just to accommodate someone else's regional dialect. b^)

It's like metric vs. imperial. I think you'll find that Asia, Australia, New Zealand, UK all use pawpaw for one fruit.