Parris

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 53.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
1968 · 34 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,903
since 1917

Parris over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201917peak #2,241, 1993peak #1,314, 1968girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#11,9327#12,0085
2024#7,96713#10,9386
2023#8,98911#9,7637
2022#7,28115#8,9908
2021#6,69117#9,7147
2020#8,95311#8,7398
2019#5,79821#7,64310
2018#5,45423#6,34513
2017#5,66122#12,2465
2016#5,13026#5,78915
2015#5,45824#8,0409
2014#3,84839#5,48516
2013#4,54331#7,53710
2012#4,12136#5,72015
2011#3,17352#7,50210
2010#3,68942#6,03614
2009#4,26935#4,58221
2008#4,44834#5,24917
2007#3,53146#4,99618
2006#4,16535#5,07217
2005#2,58066#4,32620
2004#2,26477#4,26420
2003#2,80055#4,11420
2002#3,88933#3,55424
2001#3,09145#4,12119
2000#3,12144#2,92230
1999#2,85447#2,66532
1998#2,57053#2,04046
1997#2,77644#2,31136
1996#2,51050#2,21837
1995#2,68745#2,34633
1994#3,03838#1,97742
1993#2,24158#1,47263
1992#2,38654#1,54657
1991#2,59347#1,50258
1990#2,90039#1,58752
1989#3,47729#1,95337
1988#4,17221#1,61844
1987#2,78035#1,76037
1986#3,45925#2,16126
1985#3,62123#1,67237
1984#9,1446#1,55639
1983#5,82411#1,90528
1982#6,8889#1,92928
1981#5,57112#1,99627
1980#5,54412#1,80831
1979#6,18910#2,77716
1978#5,56311#2,66916
1977#1,94825
1976#9,2845#2,94613
1975#2,54016
1974#8,7755#2,05021
1973#6,0808#2,12419
1972#2,32316
1971#4,81011#1,46634
1970#5,4139#1,43534
1969#2,04617
1968#4,22211#1,31434
1967#1,60923
1966#5,2737#1,75719
1965#3,73312#1,85618
1964#4,6369#1,38432
1963#4,27210#1,51327
1962#3,59213#1,85219
1961#4,8828#1,43931
1960#3,92011#1,46330
1959#1,97417
1958#5,4086#1,59324
1957#6,0865#2,8229
1956#2,36112
1955#2,43511
1954#2,7439
1953#2,53110
1952#2,15313
1951#2,36711
1950#2,20712
1949#2,22512
1948#1,65620
1947#1,59922
1946#2,9197
1945#2,9966
1944#2,4679
1943#1,43124
1942#1,53721
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1940#2,8717
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1936#3,1476
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1934#3,2776
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1927#2,9129
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1925#3,4087
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1917#3,9815
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five boys were named Parris! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1917–1924, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Parris
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938#12,008)
  • 3,269 spots since 2020 (#8,739#12,008)
  • 3,968 spots since 2015 (#8,040#12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
51 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 1968 at #1,314 (34 births)
  • Births halved by 1969, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 31,132
  • Highest: 1 in 31,132 boys born in 1993 were named Parris (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,314 in 1968, was only 1 in 51,117 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 24.0% of all boys named Parris (456) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1995
  • Mostly boys until 1994, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#3,981 (1917)#3,981
1920s16#2,912 (1927)#3,160
1930s12#3,147 (1936)#3,212
1940s128#1,431 (1943)#2,189
1950s128#1,593 (1958)#2,319
1960s250#1,314 (1968)#1,623
1970s210#1,435 (1970)#2,228
1980s334#1,556 (1984)#1,836
1990s456#1,472 (1993)#1,966
2000s206#2,922 (2000)#4,320
2010s117#5,485 (2014)#7,234
2020s41#8,739 (2020)#10,025

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.

Parris in 1917

boys
#3,981
5 births · 1 in 185,096 boys

Top boys' names in 1917

  1. #1John51,852
  2. #2William42,422
  3. #3James37,337
  4. #4Robert35,220
  5. #5Joseph24,761
  6. #6George24,196
  7. #7Charles24,143
  8. #8Edward17,501
  9. #9Frank15,768
  10. #10Thomas12,611
  11. #3,981Parris5
More about 1917

boys

925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 185,096 of them was named Parris, which outranked 13.5% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Parris
  1. #3,545York6
  2. #3,545Zed6
  3. #3,545Zion6
  4. #3,981Parris5
  5. #3,981Abbie5
  6. #3,981Abelardo5
  7. #3,981Abran5

Tied with 621 names at #3,981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. 520Nicolas#1,304#784
  2. 469Hezekiah#1,415#946
  3. 433Hilliard#1,415#982
  4. 404Rayford#1,304#900
  5. 338Minoru#1,335#997
Fallers
  1. 1,738Tatsuo#824#2,562
  2. 709Berlin#984#1,693
  3. 556Prentice#972#1,528
  4. 473Manning#964#1,437
  5. 457Lovell#939#1,396

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1917