Payslee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PAYZ-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Payslee is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Payslee mean?
Scottish: variant spelling of Paisley, the Scottish town and fabric pattern
A spelling of Paisley, the Scottish town whose weavers gave their name to the teardrop textile pattern.
Is Payslee a girl's or a boy's name?
Payslee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Payslee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Payslee, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 48 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Payslee in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,300 girls in the US were given Payslee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #61, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.
Payslee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,663 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,161 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,457 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,693 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,346 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,484 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,141 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,705 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
Names like Payslee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Monroe, Isla, Journee, Brynlee, Rynlee, Lennox, Finley, Collins, Harlow, Jovie, Oaklynn, Marlowe
Other spellings of Payslee
Paisley, Paislee, Paisleigh, Paizley, Paizlee, Paislie, Paisly, Paislei, Paysley, Paizleigh, Paisely
Names related to Payslee
More Scottish names
Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Skye, Knox, Dallas, Lochlan, Reid, Lachlan
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, “Payslee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/payslee, updated 20 October 2026.