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Pailyn vs Paizley

American parents have registered 1,439 Paizleys since 1880, against 147 Pailyns. Paizley is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Pailyn against Paizley, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Pailyn Paizley

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

Paizley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Pailyn had 23 and Paizley had 55.

Side by side

  Pailyn Paizley
Total US births 1471,439
Most in one year 23117
Babies in 2025 740
Estimated living today 1501,400
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20092013
Best rank 5,891st girls1,754th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd3,712th
First recorded 20091991
Girls / boys 147 / 01,439 / 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.

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