Parley
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #13,464 · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 687since 1880
Parley over time
Rank among boys' names. Parley has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #6,143 | 14 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #10,863 | 6 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
| 2019 | — | #12,145 | 5 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,345 | 13 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,349 | 13 | |
| 2015 | — | #8,744 | 8 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,087 | 11 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,763 | 12 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | — | #6,042 | 10 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,302 | 12 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #2,498 | 10 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,712 | 8 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #2,179 | 11 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,003 | 14 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,624 | 21 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,446 | 25 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,693 | 19 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,949 | 15 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,458 | 10 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,868 | 12 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,441 | 14 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,619 | 10 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | #1,217 | 6 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | #1,137 | 5 | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | #857 | 7 | |
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | #758 | 7 | |
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #943 | 5 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | #640 | 9 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Parley was already there! It came in at #640, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1885, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Parley
- 2,844 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #6,143)
- 4,462 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #6,143)
- 2,601 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #640 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · 1880–1894
- Highest: 1 in 12,277 boys born in 1880 were named Parley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 18.3% of all boys named Parley (126) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21 | #640 (1880) | #780 |
| 1890s | 7 | #857 (1894) | #857 |
| 1900s | 11 | #1,137 (1902) | #1,177 |
| 1910s | 126 | #1,441 (1913) | #1,762 |
| 1920s | 77 | #2,347 (1924) | #3,145 |
| 1930s | 71 | #2,003 (1931) | #2,906 |
| 1940s | 50 | #2,179 (1940) | #2,718 |
| 1950s | 36 | #2,302 (1955) | #3,240 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,907 (1971) | #4,907 |
| 1980s | 19 | #4,593 (1982) | #5,446 |
| 1990s | 51 | #6,042 (1999) | #7,058 |
| 2000s | 72 | #6,445 (2001) | #8,694 |
| 2010s | 99 | #6,345 (2018) | #7,989 |
| 2020s | 42 | #6,143 (2025) | #9,085 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Parley in 1894
Top boys' names in 1894
More about 1894
boys
115,768 boys got a published name in 1894; 1 in 16,538 of them was named Parley, which outranked 30.8% of the 1,239 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).