Paisley ranks at #658 with 186 entries, registered female. The name is the Scottish town and the curling-droplet textile pattern named after it, and on a pet registry it lands as a deliberately-soft-feminine pick with a strong post-2010 American baby-naming overlay.
The post-2010 baby-name wave
Paisley climbed sharply on American girls' baby-name charts in the 2010s, and pet Paisley tracks that human-naming wave directly. The name reads as one of the cleanest examples of a modern-feminine pet pick that owners chose specifically because they liked the same name on their own children's-cohort classmates. The household aesthetic skews design-conscious millennial, often with a country-music or Southern-American register layered in.
The Brad Paisley overlay
For a slice of country-music-listening households, Paisley carries an additional anchor through Brad Paisley (the country artist, recording since 1999). The cohort is real but secondary, with most Paisleys named for the textile-pattern aesthetic or the human-baby-naming wave rather than the singer. The overlay does add a slight country-music register to the name for owners with Nashville-adjacent musical taste.
Sound and breed lean
Two syllables, front-stressed (PAYS-lee), with a soft sibilant middle and clean trailing -ee. The name carries cleanly outside and recalls reliably. It lands disproportionately on small-to-medium soft-coated breeds where the textile-name aesthetic matches the visual register: Cavaliers, Cocker Spaniels, Havanese, and small mixed-breed companions. The human Paisley page shows strong post-2010 SSA growth.