Paisley

Where Paisley comes from

From Scottish Gaelic Pàislig (“pasture”). Despite occasional respellings such as Paisleigh, this word does not etymologically contain the suffix -ley/-leigh.
— Wiktionary's entry for Paisley
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    Paisley Currah born
    Canadian academic
  2. 1966
    First appearance
    #6,564 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2015
    Peak, #45
    5,091 babies named Paisley — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Paisley Currah · Canadian academic, born 1964

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.