Paizlee
Feminine · “the Scottish town”
Paisley is a Scottish town on the edge of Glasgow, and the teardrop pattern is named after it because its mills wove the imported Kashmiri shawls by the million in the nineteenth century. Paizlee is the American respelling, with the s turned to a z and the ending opened out.
How old is the name Paizlee?
Paizlee first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Paizlee is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Paizlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Paizlee most popular?
Paizlee peaked in 2015, reaching #1972 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 2,786 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Paisley (town) to Paizlee
The story of Paizlee
The teardrop figure is Persian and Indian long before it is Scottish, and it reached Britain on Kashmiri shawls that were far too expensive for most buyers. The weavers of Paisley learned to copy them, and by the middle of the nineteenth century the town was producing the design in such volume that English-speaking countries began calling the pattern by the town's name. The town became a girls' name in the United States in the two-thousands, and the respellings arrived at once: Paislee, Paizley, Paizlee and Payslee all write one sound.
Meaningscholars disagree
the Scottish town, and the pattern named after it
The town's own name is not settled. A Brythonic word related to basilica, meaning a church, is the reading most often given, from the Latin term for a major church. Other accounts propose a Gaelic word for a pasture. The pattern's name is not in doubt: it comes from the town, which wove the design at scale.
How the name formed
- Paisleytown
- paisleypattern
- Paisley
- Paizlee
Pronouncing Paizlee
PAYZ-lee
Two syllables, stress in front. The z spells a sound the s was already making, so nothing about the name changes.
Nicknames for Paizlee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 2015101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1972reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −15.2%28 in 2025, from 33
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Paizlee in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Tennessee, Indiana.
Paizlees among us
people named Paizlee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Paizlee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Paizlee
- #4758
- Paizlee on the 2025 chart
- #538
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Paizlee went to 28 girls in 2025, but Paislee and Payslee are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 467, which makes it the 538th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,220 places above the chart.
- Paislee423
- Paizlee28
- Payslee16
About 1 girl in 3,442 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 57,402 for Paizlee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Riva test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Paizlee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Riva climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Riva's path sketches the road Paizlee is walking now.
Paizlee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Paizlee is headed
Paizlee is easing off slowly — about 32% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Paizlee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Paizlee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It names a real place and a real pattern, both of which can be shown to a child.
- The sound is entirely familiar in English-speaking countries.
- Lee works as a short form and reads more plainly than the full name.
- Paisley is the standard spelling by a wide margin and this one will be corrected constantly.
- At least four spellings of the same sound are in circulation.
- The name is strongly of the last two decades and will date accordingly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Paizlees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Paizlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Paizlee?
- Paizlee is one of 3 recorded spellings. Paislee is the more common one — 423 births in 2025 against 28 for Paizlee.
- How popular is the name Paizlee in 2025?
- Paizlee ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Paizlee?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Paizlee — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Paizlee with classmates?
- Paizlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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