Entry № 7917 · Scottish origin

Paislee Paislee — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAYZ-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Paisley pattern (Prince's Paisley Park)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "paisley pattern (prince's paisley park)".

Paislee is the modern American spelling of Paisley — from the Scottish town and the iconic teardrop-shaped textile pattern (introduced to Europe from Persia/Kashmir in the 18th-19th centuries through the Scottish weavers of Paisley, Renfrewshire). A top-500 US baby name since 2014. The Paisley pattern itself has cultural resonance across British, American, Persian, and Indian traditions — popularized in 1960s Western fashion through The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's era and Prince's 1980s music videos. The Scottish town of Paisley (population 76,000) is the largest town in Renfrewshire and home to Paisley Abbey (founded 1163).

Paisley pattern (Prince's Paisley Park) — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Paislee
Transliteration
Paislee
Pronunciation
/ ˈpeɪz.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Paislee stands.

Paislee does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Paislees before her.

Real people

In fiction
Paislee
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Paislee.

The number behind Paislee.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paislee reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.