Paisley
Paisley is ranked 61st among girls in 2024 (3,542 births). Its best rank was 45th, in 2015, 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- #61down 5 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,5420.22% of girls
- Peak year
- 20155,089 births
- Best rank
- #45first in 2015
- Since 1966
- 61,817people given the name
The story in the numbers
61,817 girls have been named Paisley in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 5,089 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 53 → 61).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 61%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Paisley was the 45th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Paisley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adalynnpeak 2018
- Kenzleypeak 2020
- Aadyapeak 2020
- Milahpeak 2018
- Kinzleypeak 2017
- Avalynnpeak 2020
- Aubriellapeak 2018
- Briellapeak 2018
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.