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Pailyn vs Paislee

American parents have registered 11,255 Paislees since 1880, against 147 Pailyns. Paislee is still ahead, with 423 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Pailyn against Paislee, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Pailyn Paislee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Paislee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Pailyn had 23 and Paislee had 128.

Side by side

  Pailyn Paislee
Total US births 14711,255
Most in one year 231,132
Babies in 2025 7423
Estimated living today 15011,000
Median age today 118
Peak year 20092016
Best rank 5,891st girls283rd girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd666th
First recorded 20091990
Girls / boys 147 / 011,255 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pailyns alive today are over 11; half the Paislees are over 8. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pailyn and Paislee.