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Paislee

#669 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Paisley

Paislee has been given to 11,255 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #669 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 1,132 recorded.

Babies named Paislee, 2025

1 in 7,840

Paislee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paislee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Paisley

surname transfer

What Paislee means

Paislee is a variant of Paisley.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Paislee → Paisley. The family’s meaning is “pasture”, recorded in English with the source elements Pàislig.

Origin, language, and formation

Paislee is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Paislee is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paisley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,255 girls were recorded with the name Paislee between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,132 in 2016; its best national rank was #284 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #379 in 2020 to #669 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #322 in 2015 to #669 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Paislee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,840
423 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,800
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#669
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,434 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Paislee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,434 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paislee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paislees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paislee was born before 2017 — so the typical Paislee is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,255
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (7,235).

Is Paislee rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−290
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−347
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.4%
Peak was 2016 (1,132)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#284
2016

Spellings of Paislee

Paislee is not the most common spelling — Paisley is, with 44.1% against Paislee's 7.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Paislee is used

Across 2016–2025, Paislee was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 337 girls, against 1 in 1,802 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in 25,000).

4297 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 337
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 592
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 621
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 637
  5. 5Idaho1 in 781
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 833
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 833
  8. 8Alabama1 in 847

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Paislee is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Paislee around the world

Where Paislee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Paislee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#669
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 290
Best rank ever
#284
2016
Peak year
2016
1,132 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,255
Count in 2025
423

Names similar to Paislee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Paislee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Paislee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AddilynDaleyzaBraelynnAriahAvianaCharleighHenleyKensleyAdelynnBrinleyBriellaCoraline

Sibling names for Paislee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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