Paisley comes from the Scottish town of Paisley near Glasgow — but the name is more closely associated with the famous teardrop-shaped textile pattern of the same name.
Paisley as a girl's name is a recent American phenomenon, entering the U.S.
Paisley 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paisley reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.