Paisley — #61 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Paisley

The Social Security Administration has registered 61,817 babies named Paisley between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paisley currently holds the #61 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 5,089 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paisley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 37,571 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Paisley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5,388 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Paisley in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paisley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 61,817 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.