Paislei
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PAYZ-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Paislei is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Paislei mean?
Scottish: respelling of Paisley, a Scottish town
The swirling Paisley pattern takes its name from the Scottish town where it was mass-produced.
Is Paislei a girl's or a boy's name?
Paislei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Paislei in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Paislei, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Paislei in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,300 girls in the US were given Paislei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #61, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Paislei in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
Names like Paislei
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Isla, Monroe, Lennox, Harlow, Palmer, Collins, Wrenley, Oakley, Oaklynn, Poppy, Haisley, Miller
Other spellings of Paislei
Paisley, Paislee, Paisleigh, Paizley, Paizlee, Payslee, Paislie, Paisly, Paysley, Paizleigh, Paisely
Names related to Paislei
More Scottish names
Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Skye, Knox, Dallas, Lochlan, Reid
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, “Paislei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paislei, updated 20 October 2026.