Paysley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PAYZ-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Paysley is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Paysley mean?
Scottish: respelling of Paisley, a Scottish town
Respelling of Paisley, the Scottish town that gave its name to the paisley pattern.
Is Paysley a girl's or a boy's name?
Paysley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Paysley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Paysley, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the girls named Paysley in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,300 girls in the US were given Paysley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #61, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Paysley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
Names like Paysley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wrenley, Finley, Oakley, Haisley, Isla, Ensley, Adley, Presley, Kinsley, Monroe, Kinley, Henley
Other spellings of Paysley
Paisley, Paislee, Paisleigh, Paizley, Paizlee, Payslee, Paislie, Paisly, Paislei, Paizleigh, Paisely
Names related to Paysley
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, “Paysley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/paysley, updated 20 October 2026.