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Paisleigh vs Paizlee

American parents have registered 3,568 Paisleighs since 1880, against 1,120 Paizlees. Paisleigh is still ahead, with 238 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Paisleigh against Paizlee, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Paisleigh Paizlee

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

Of the 23 years in which either name was published, Paisleigh for 18 years and Paizlee for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Paisleigh Paizlee
Total US births 3,5681,120
Most in one year 352101
Babies in 2025 23828
Estimated living today 3,5001,100
Median age today 69
Peak year 20182015
Best rank 775th girls1,972nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,043rd4,758th
First recorded 20062000
Girls / boys 3,568 / 01,120 / 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 Paizlees alive today are over 9; half the Paisleighs are over 6. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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