Paralee — girls' name
1,215 babies named Paralee in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Paralee was born in this single decade.
39 babies were named Paralee in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Paralee
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,215 babies named Paralee between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paralee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 39 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Paralee performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 256 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Paralee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Paralee in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Paralee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,215 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Paralee at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Paralee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1880
- Peak year (1920)
- 39
- Annual births at peak — across 139 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
1,215 total births across 139 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 39 births in a single year.
Paralee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 256 births that decade — 21% of Paralee's all-time total
Paralee decade highlights
- Peak decade 256 births
- Runner-up 246 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Paralee's strongest decade
256 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Paralee by state
Where Paralee concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alabama | | 64 | 5.3% |
| #2 | Texas | | 26 | 2.1% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 12 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Mississippi | | 10 | 0.8% |
| #5 | South Carolina | | 6 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Arkansas | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Tennessee | | 5 | 0.4% |
64 of 1,215 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Alabama 5.3% of nationwide
- Texas 2.1% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.0% of nationwide
- Mississippi 0.8% of nationwide
- South Carolina 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 5.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.