Paisley

girls:

58.2k births since 1966

#527 (91st percentile)

boys:

76 births since 2011

#4510 (2nd percentile)

overall:

58.3k births since 1966

#978 (87th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Paisley".

1966 2023 19662023

Key Statistics

Total Births
58,225
Peak Births
5,088
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1966
Peak Percentile
95.4%
Current Percentile
94.4%
Peak Rank
#45
Current Rank
#54
Female statistics
Total Births
76
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
2017
First Recorded
2011
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#875
Current Rank
#911
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Paisley

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Paisley. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 80.5% confident that Paisley is pronounced as PAYZ-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is PAY-slee, at 19.5% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Paisley. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Paisley, please vote using the thumbs up button.

PAYZ-LEE (2 syllables)
4 names 1.6k births
P EY1 Z L IY1
PAY-see (2 syllables)
4 names 1k births
P EY1 S IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like P EY1 Z L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.