Paizley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PAYZ-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #3,711 for girls
Paizley is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,711th for girls in the US (40 babies).
What does Paizley mean?
Scottish: variant of Paisley, the town near Glasgow
The Scottish town of Paisley gave its name to the teardrop pattern woven on its 19th-century shawls.
Is Paizley a girl's or a boy's name?
Paizley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 40 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Paizley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,711th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 40 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 40 girls in the US were named Paizley, making it the 3,711th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,468th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 117 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had fewer girls named Paizley than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Paizley in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,300 girls in the US were given Paizley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #61, up from #3,711 for this spelling alone.
Paizley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,711 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,524 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,277 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,460 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,468 |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,331 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,334 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,854 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,865 |
| 2015 | 115 | #1,814 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,781 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,754 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,859 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,588 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,074 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,087 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,549 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,263 |
Names like Paizley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Presley, Oakley, Finley, Isla, Hadley, Kinsley, Haisley, Adley, Miley, Ensley, Monroe, Lainey
Other spellings of Paizley
Paisley, Paislee, Paisleigh, Paizlee, Payslee, Paislie, Paisly, Paislei, Paysley, Paizleigh, Paisely
Names related to Paizley
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, “Paizley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paizley, updated 20 October 2026.