Paizley
Paizley was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,760 among girls’ names; 1,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Paizley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paizley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paizley?
#3,760 among girls’ names, 2025
Paizley fell from #1,822 in 2015 to #3,760 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 64.4 to 24.9 per million.
117 babies in 2013, the peak
Paizley peaked in 2013, when 117 girls were given it, #1,759 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,760 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,375 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,568 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,305 | 29.9 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,478 | 43.9 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,492 | 43.3 |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,349 | 45.9 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,358 | 45.9 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,860 | 63.7 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,874 | 62.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 115 | #1,822 | 64.4 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,792 | 64.4 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,759 | 66.7 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,868 | 61.3 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,609 | 39.2 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,109 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,118 | 29.9 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,616 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,652 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,173 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,941 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,495 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,709 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,929 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,859 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,476 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,111 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,136 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paizley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paizley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paizley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paizley, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,439 Americans ever recorded as Paizley. The median Paizley alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 950 people named Paizley (950 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Paizley born?
The states with the most babies named Paizley are Texas, Utah and Oklahoma, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 109 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Utah | 70 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Oklahoma | 42 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 26 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 12 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 12 | not ranked | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Paizley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,907 babies since 1880, Paizley is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 68 babies (59%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Paizley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Paizley and names like it
- Compare Paizley and PaizleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPaizley peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paizley since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Paizley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Paizley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.