Meaning not yet researched.
Paizley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,759 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,759 in 2013; #3,761 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paizley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,761 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,759.
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Paizley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,759 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 117 (2013).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Paizley, making it the 3,761st most common girls’ name of the year, down 386 places from #3,375 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 47 girls named Paizley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,759, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #1,822 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paizley in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 1,439 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 953 babies named Paizley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 697 US girls were named Paizley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Paisley (65,456 babies since 1880), Paislee (11,255 babies since 1880) and Paizlee (1,120 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paizli are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paizli (21).
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 Paizley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,569 | — | — |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2015 | 115 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,617 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,656 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,178 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,948 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,501 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,716 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,935 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,866 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,482 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,117 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,143 | — | — |
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).