Paisly
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PAYZ-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Paisly is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Paisly mean?
Scottish: spelling of Paislee, itself a spelling of Paisley, the Scottish town
A spelling of Paisley, the Scottish town whose weaving mills gave their name to the teardrop-shaped paisley pattern.
Meaning borrowed from Paislee. More on Wiktionary.
Is Paisly a girl's or a boy's name?
Paisly 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 Paisly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Paisly, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Paisly in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,300 girls in the US were given Paisly 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.
Paisly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,145 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Names like Paisly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Isla, Everly, Poppy, Finley, Presley, Murphy, Oakley, Blakely, Monroe, Tilly, Lily, Ivy
Other spellings of Paisly
Paisley, Paislee, Paisleigh, Paizley, Paizlee, Payslee, Paislie, Paislei, Paysley, Paizleigh, Paisely
Names related to Paisly
More Scottish names
Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, 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, “Paisly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paisly, updated 20 October 2026.