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
- Peak · boys
- 1968 · 34 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,903since 1917
Parris over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #11,932 | 7 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #3,531 | 46 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #2,580 | 66 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #2,264 | 77 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #3,121 | 44 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #2,570 | 53 | #2,040 | 46 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,510 | 50 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #2,241 | 58 | #1,472 | 63 |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | #1,546 | 57 |
| 1991 | #2,593 | 47 | #1,502 | 58 |
| 1990 | #2,900 | 39 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | #1,760 | 37 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 | #1,672 | 37 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | #1,808 | 31 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | — | #1,948 | 25 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | — | #2,540 | 16 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | — | #2,323 | 16 | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | #1,466 | 34 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #1,435 | 34 |
| 1969 | — | #2,046 | 17 | |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | #1,314 | 34 |
| 1967 | — | #1,609 | 23 | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #1,757 | 19 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | #1,856 | 18 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | #1,384 | 32 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | #1,513 | 27 |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 | #1,852 | 19 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #1,439 | 31 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | #1,463 | 30 |
| 1959 | — | #1,974 | 17 | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #1,593 | 24 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | — | #2,361 | 12 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,435 | 11 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,743 | 9 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,153 | 13 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,367 | 11 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,207 | 12 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,225 | 12 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,656 | 20 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,599 | 22 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,431 | 24 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,537 | 21 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
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| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1968 at #1,314 (34 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 24.0% of all boys named Parris (456) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1994, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 16 | #2,912 (1927) | #3,160 |
| 1930s | 12 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,212 |
| 1940s | 128 | #1,431 (1943) | #2,189 |
| 1950s | 128 | #1,593 (1958) | #2,319 |
| 1960s | 250 | #1,314 (1968) | #1,623 |
| 1970s | 210 | #1,435 (1970) | #2,228 |
| 1980s | 334 | #1,556 (1984) | #1,836 |
| 1990s | 456 | #1,472 (1993) | #1,966 |
| 2000s | 206 | #2,922 (2000) | #4,320 |
| 2010s | 117 | #5,485 (2014) | #7,234 |
| 2020s | 41 | #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 1968
Top girls' names in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
girls
1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 149,126 of them was named Parris, which outranked 48.5% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,000Zana12
- #4,000Zanetta12
- #4,000Zsazsa12
- #4,222Parris11
- #4,222Adelle11
- #4,222Adora11
- #4,222Alayne11
- #4,489Adam10
- #4,489Adell10
- #4,489Adrea10
Tied with 266 names at #4,222; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 51,117 of them was named Parris, which outranked 72.3% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,282Slade35
- #1,282Talmadge35
- #1,282Yancey35
- #1,314Parris34
- #1,314Antwan34
- #1,314Barbara34
- #1,314Brannon34
- #1,339Abe33
- #1,339Alphonse33
- #1,339Cardell33
Tied with 24 names at #1,314; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.