Payslee is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Paisley, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Payslee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,379 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,379 in 2015; #7,061 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Payslee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,061 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #3,379.
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Payslee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,379 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 48 (2015).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Payslee, making it the 7,061st most common girls’ name of the year, down 196 places from #6,865 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 17 girls named Payslee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,379, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #3,379 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Payslee in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 5 babies. In all, 412 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 297 babies named Payslee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 222 US girls were named Payslee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 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).
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.
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 Payslee 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.
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).