Parrish
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 84.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1966 · 124 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,706since 1943
Parrish 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | — | #7,765 | 10 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,897 | 12 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | — | #4,890 | 19 | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #4,251 | 23 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | — | #3,888 | 25 | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #3,735 | 24 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #2,742 | 34 |
| 2000 | — | #2,425 | 39 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #1,987 | 48 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,201 | 39 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #2,047 | 42 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #1,623 | 56 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #1,399 | 70 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,306 | 76 |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | #1,187 | 88 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #1,382 | 67 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #1,590 | 50 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,645 | 43 |
| 1987 | — | #2,333 | 24 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #1,834 | 32 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #1,885 | 29 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #1,822 | 30 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | — | #2,138 | 24 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,910 | 29 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,236 | 22 | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #2,375 | 19 |
| 1977 | — | #1,904 | 26 | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #1,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #1,304 | 44 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #1,370 | 39 |
| 1973 | — | #987 | 67 | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | #905 | 78 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | #822 | 96 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #857 | 88 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | #836 | 84 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #756 | 96 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | #735 | 100 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | #663 | 124 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | #831 | 78 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #895 | 72 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #947 | 63 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #776 | 96 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #867 | 78 |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Parrish! It came in at #2,732, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1960, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Parrish
- 478 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #8,243)
- 2,263 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #8,243)
- 3,353 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #8,243)
- Biggest jump: 3,171 spots in 1961 (#4,038 → #867)
- Biggest drop: 383 spots in 1974 (#987 → #1,370)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1966 at #663 (124 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1961–1973
- Highest: 1 in 14,383 boys born in 1966 were named Parrish (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.4% of all boys named Parrish (796) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 8 | #2,732 (1943) | #2,732 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 796 | #663 (1966) | #1,134 |
| 1970s | 504 | #822 (1971) | #1,469 |
| 1980s | 309 | #1,590 (1989) | #1,959 |
| 1990s | 567 | #1,187 (1992) | #1,758 |
| 2000s | 271 | #2,425 (2000) | #3,750 |
| 2010s | 184 | #4,114 (2019) | #5,128 |
| 2020s | 67 | #5,980 (2020) | #7,310 |
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.
Parrish in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 152,124 of them was named Parrish, which outranked 47.1% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,793Xanthe11
- #4,793Xochilt11
- #4,793Yolinda11
- #5,109Parrish10
- #5,109Adeana10
- #5,109Agustina10
- #5,109Aidee10
- #5,480Abbigail9
- #5,480Adelia9
- #5,480Adrinne9
Tied with 370 names at #5,109; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 20,790 of them was named Parrish, which outranked 84.3% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).