Paisley

At the 2020 census, 2,848 Americans bore the surname Paisley — 10,711th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 105,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,848
Rank: 10,711th
How common: 1 in 105,000
Per 100,000: 0.95

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic Pàislig (“pasture”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Paisley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.7%
Black, not Hispanic 12.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Paisley

Ian Paisley (1926–2014)politician and former church minister
Bob Paisley (1919–1996)English footballer and manager
Brad Paisley (born 1972)American country musician
Kimberly Williams-Paisley (born 1971)American actor and film director

People named Paisley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Paisley

Also a first name

Paisley has been given to 65,456 American babies as a first name since 1966, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.