Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Parsley.
- Scottish : variant of Paisley. Black suggests also that some examples of Pasley and Paisley may be derived from a place known as Pasley or Howpasley, in the Borders region.
- Possibly an altered spelling of German Pasler, a variant of Basler, or of Pässler, an occupational name, from an agent derivative of basteln ‘to do handicraft’.