Meaning not yet researched.
Paisley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,508 in 2025. Its best rank was #45 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #45 in 2017; #67 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Paisley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#67 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #45.
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Paisley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,508 girls in 2025. Peak: #45 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 5,091 (2015).
In 2025, 3,508 US girls were named Paisley, making it the 67th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #61 in 2024. That is 46 fewer than the 3,554 girls named Paisley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #45, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,091, in 2015. For comparison, it was #45 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paisley in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 65,456 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 37,638 babies named Paisley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42,033 US girls were named Paisley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 4,958. In 2025 that was about 1 in 458 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paisley ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #9 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 38 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Paislee (11,255 babies since 1880), Paizley (1,439 babies since 1880) and Paizlee (1,120 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paislie, Payslee and Paisly are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Paislie (491), Payslee (412), Paisly (216), Paislei (185), Paisli (144), Paysley (118), Paislea (100), Paizly (32), Payzley (23), Pazley (13), Paesley (10), Paizlea (7), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Paisley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 1 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 53 | #9 | #7 |
| Mississippi | 56 | #14 | #6 |
| Idaho | 46 | #20 | #14 |
| North Dakota | 22 | #22 | #8 |
| South Dakota | 24 | #22 | #24 |
| Kentucky | 95 | #26 | #9 |
| Arkansas | 54 | #28 | #10 |
| Alabama | 84 | #28 | #26 |
| Missouri | 111 | #29 | #24 |
| New Hampshire | 29 | #30 | #67 |
| Iowa | 58 | #31 | #30 |
| Indiana | 120 | #33 | #25 |
| Louisiana | 72 | #34 | #19 |
| South Carolina | 81 | #34 | #33 |
| Tennessee | 131 | #34 | #12 |
| Oklahoma | 67 | #35 | #11 |
| Ohio | 180 | #39 | #27 |
| Michigan | 132 | #44 | #47 |
| Georgia | 151 | #46 | #24 |
| Kansas | 48 | #47 | #16 |
| Maine | 17 | #48 | #33 |
| Pennsylvania | 159 | #49 | #54 |
| Oregon | 50 | #50 | #23 |
| New Mexico | 21 | #50 | #51 |
| Wyoming | 7 | #53 | #26 |
| Wisconsin | 72 | #55 | #57 |
| Minnesota | 74 | #57 | #48 |
| North Carolina | 140 | #58 | #33 |
| Arizona | 84 | #58 | #63 |
| Montana | 14 | #60 | #9 |
| Utah | 60 | #62 | #36 |
| Nebraska | 27 | #64 | #17 |
| Delaware | 12 | #64 | #75 |
| Vermont | 7 | #64 | #25 |
| Hawaii | 11 | #65 | #60 |
| Washington | 80 | #73 | #48 |
| Virginia | 80 | #84 | #68 |
| Florida | 177 | #90 | #63 |
| Nevada | 21 | #102 | #76 |
| Illinois | 86 | #103 | #76 |
| Alaska | 7 | #105 | #170 |
| Texas | 272 | #110 | #52 |
| Colorado | 41 | #135 | #73 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #143 | #116 |
| Maryland | 32 | #155 | #125 |
| New York | 90 | #181 | #185 |
| California | 181 | #181 | #148 |
| Massachusetts | 26 | #222 | #138 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #264 | #177 |
| New Jersey | 26 | #320 | #327 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,508 | #67 | 5 | #13,390 |
| 2024 | 3,554 | #61 | 6 | #11,977 |
| 2023 | 3,749 | #56 | 5 | #13,648 |
| 2022 | 4,056 | #53 | — | — |
| 2021 | 4,299 | #52 | 6 | #11,780 |
| 2020 | 4,380 | #49 | 9 | #8,557 |
| 2019 | 4,280 | #53 | 7 | #10,531 |
| 2018 | 4,366 | #52 | 8 | #9,442 |
| 2017 | 4,958 | #45 | 12 | #7,000 |
| 2016 | 4,883 | #46 | 5 | #13,676 |
| 2015 | 5,091 | #45 | — | — |
| 2014 | 4,501 | #53 | 6 | #11,762 |
| 2013 | 3,607 | #80 | 7 | #10,442 |
| 2012 | 2,924 | #104 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,644 | #194 | 11 | #7,370 |
| 2010 | 1,328 | #238 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,023 | #319 | — | — |
| 2008 | 700 | #450 | — | — |
| 2007 | 491 | #613 | — | — |
| 2006 | 327 | #826 | — | — |
| 2005 | 228 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2004 | 183 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1993 | 93 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,807 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,996 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,762 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,791 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,204 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,411 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,405 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,119 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,949 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,201 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,829 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,071 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,547 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,316 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).