Paisley
#67 for girls in 2025, 3,508 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 5,091 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 13 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 65,369since 1966
Paisley over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #67 | 3,508 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #61 | 3,554 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #56 | 3,749 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #53 | 4,056 | — | |
| 2021 | #52 | 4,299 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #49 | 4,380 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #53 | 4,280 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #52 | 4,366 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #45 | 4,958 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #46 | 4,883 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #45 | 5,091 | — | |
| 2014 | #53 | 4,501 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #80 | 3,607 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #104 | 2,924 | — | |
| 2011 | #194 | 1,644 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #238 | 1,328 | — | |
| 2009 | #319 | 1,023 | — | |
| 2008 | #450 | 700 | — | |
| 2007 | #612 | 491 | — | |
| 2006 | #825 | 327 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,046 | 228 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,216 | 183 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,858 | 99 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,683 | 109 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 100 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,530 | 54 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,556 | 50 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,982 | 69 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,757 | 83 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,629 | 93 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,782 | 81 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,242 | 58 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,402 | 51 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,810 | 39 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
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| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Paisley! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Paisley is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wyoming#4 · 1 in 51
- West Virginia#5 · 1 in 74
- Kentucky#8 · 1 in 113
- Arkansas#8 · 1 in 124
- Mississippi#9 · 1 in 124
Best ever in a state: #3 in West Virginia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #4 | 17 | 1 in 51 |
| West Virginia | #5 | 74 | 1 in 74 |
| Arkansas | #8 | 83 | 1 in 124 |
| Kentucky | #8 | 150 | 1 in 113 |
| Alabama | #9 | 146 | 1 in 128 |
| Mississippi | #9 | 82 | 1 in 124 |
| Montana | #12 | 27 | 1 in 92 |
| Louisiana | #14 | 111 | 1 in 167 |
| Tennessee | #14 | 191 | 1 in 159 |
| Indiana | #16 | 157 | 1 in 178 |
| Kansas | #16 | 68 | 1 in 168 |
| Maine | #16 | 30 | 1 in 106 |
| Oklahoma | #17 | 89 | 1 in 166 |
| Ohio | #18 | 253 | 1 in 189 |
| Missouri | #19 | 126 | 1 in 194 |
| South Dakota | #19 | 22 | 1 in 120 |
| Vermont | #22 | 12 | 1 in 83 |
| South Carolina | #23 | 87 | 1 in 199 |
| Idaho | #28 | 37 | 1 in 165 |
| Oregon | #28 | 70 | 1 in 187 |
| New Mexico | #29 | 30 | 1 in 172 |
| Michigan | #30 | 175 | 1 in 216 |
| Georgia | #34 | 170 | 1 in 262 |
| Wisconsin | #36 | 93 | 1 in 223 |
| New Hampshire | #37 | 24 | 1 in 144 |
| Iowa | #41 | 51 | 1 in 226 |
| Nebraska | #41 | 35 | 1 in 203 |
| Pennsylvania | #41 | 185 | 1 in 261 |
| North Carolina | #42 | 165 | 1 in 264 |
| North Dakota | #43 | 15 | 1 in 187 |
| Utah | #49 | 65 | 1 in 248 |
| Delaware | #50 | 13 | 1 in 180 |
| Washington | #50 | 102 | 1 in 286 |
| Minnesota | #52 | 81 | 1 in 267 |
| Colorado | #60 | 69 | 1 in 312 |
| Alaska | #64 | 9 | 1 in 212 |
| Arizona | #68 | 75 | 1 in 369 |
| Virginia | #72 | 95 | 1 in 359 |
| Texas | #76 | 331 | 1 in 462 |
| Florida | #77 | 185 | 1 in 435 |
| Illinois | #78 | 117 | 1 in 417 |
| Nevada | #81 | 27 | 1 in 361 |
| Connecticut | #142 | 19 | 1 in 592 |
| New York | #142 | 111 | 1 in 717 |
| Hawaii | #148 | 6 | 1 in 413 |
| Massachusetts | #149 | 38 | 1 in 628 |
| Maryland | #169 | 32 | 1 in 697 |
| California | #171 | 194 | 1 in 898 |
| New Jersey | #278 | 29 | 1 in 1,201 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
| Rhode Island | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Paisley
- 6 spots since 2024 (#61 → #67)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#49 → #67)
- 22 spots since 2015 (#45 → #67)
- Biggest jump: 221 spots in 2006 (#1,046 → #825)
- Biggest drop: 7 spots in 2018 (#45 → #52)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2015 at #45 (5,091 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 13 yrs · run 2013–2025
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 348 girls born in 2017 were named Paisley (0.29%)
- Latest: 1 in 458 girls born in 2025 (0.22%)
- Its best rank, #45 in 2015, was only 1 in 351 (0.29%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 57.5% of all girls named Paisley (37,582) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 25 | #5,456 (1969) | #6,117 |
| 1970s | 57 | #4,242 (1978) | #6,806 |
| 1980s | 156 | #2,810 (1989) | #5,366 |
| 1990s | 654 | #1,629 (1993) | #2,166 |
| 2000s | 3,349 | #319 (2009) | #1,169 |
| 2010s | 37,582 | #45 (2015) | #91 |
| 2020s | 23,546 | #49 (2020) | #56 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Paisley in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 369 of them was named Paisley, which outranked 99.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 191,786 of them was named Paisley, which outranked 42.6% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,502Zohaib10
- #7,502Zoltan10
- #7,502Zyden10
- #8,067Paisley9
- #8,067Aadarsh9
- #8,067Aadhi9
- #8,067Aadish9
- #8,739Aadith8
- #8,739Aadithya8
- #8,739Aarushreddy8
Tied with 671 names at #8,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.