Girl name#445 of girl names
Paisley
Pronounced P EY1 Z L IY0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2015
- 59 years in use
How popular is Paisley?
Paisley is a girls' name, and first appears in 1966. It has been given to 72,723 children — the 445th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2015, when 6,101 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- P EY1 Z L IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Paisley
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Paisley
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Paisley?
- Paisley ranks 445th among girls' names in US records, with 72,723 births since 1966. Over the past decade it accounts for 51,838.
- Is Paisley a unisex name?
- No. Paisley is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Paisley most popular?
- 2015, when 6,101 children were given the name. It has been in use for 59 years and is still recorded as of 2024.