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Paisley-Rae

Gender
Girl
Say it
PAYZ-lee-RAY
Origin
Scottish
UK rank, 2025
#3,776 for girls

Paisley-Rae is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).

What does Paisley-Rae mean?

Scottish: Paisley + Rae

Joins Paisley (Scottish) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).

Meanings borrowed from Paisley and Rae.

Is Paisley-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?

Paisley-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Paisley-Rae in the UK?

Rank in 2025
3,776th among girls
Babies in 2025
6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 27% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Paisley-Rae, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 12 girls.

Half of all the girls named Paisley-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.

2014Busiest: 12 in 20212025
Paisley-Rae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#3,776
20245#4,253
20235#4,251
20227#3,347
202112#2,325
20208#3,009
20196#3,738
20188#3,068
20178#3,102
201610#2,692
20153#5,983
20143#5,920

Names like Paisley-Rae

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

More Scottish names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Paisley-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paisley-rae, updated 20 October 2026.