Paisely
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PAYZ-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Paisely is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Paisely mean?
Scottish: respelling of Paisley, a Scottish town
Respelling of Paisley, the Scottish town that gave its name to the paisley pattern.
Is Paisely a girl's or a boy's name?
Paisely is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Paisely in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Paisely, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2010.
Half of all the girls named Paisely in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,300 girls in the US were given Paisely or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #61, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Paisely in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
Names like Paisely
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Isla, Everly, Poppy, Oakley, Monroe, Emberly, Tilly, Murphy, Haisley, Wrenley, Ivy, Bellamy
Other spellings of Paisely
Paisley, Paislee, Paisleigh, Paizley, Paizlee, Payslee, Paislie, Paisly, Paislei, Paysley, Paizleigh
Names related to Paisely
More Scottish names
Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas, Lochlan
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, “Paisely: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paisely, updated 20 October 2026.