Paralee
Paralee was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 1,215 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paralee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paralee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,534, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1920, the peak
Paralee peaked in 1920, when 39 girls were given it, #1,242 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,371 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,418 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 10 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,243 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,372 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,532 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,184 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,373 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,313 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,134 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,390 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,186 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,707 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,693 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,367 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,188 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,154 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,826 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,186 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,696 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,327 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,689 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,583 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,642 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,206 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 18 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 20 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 14 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 16 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 15 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 23 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 12 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 9 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 13 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 11 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 12 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 7 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 14 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1884 | 11 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 10 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 8 | #723 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 13 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 7 | #725 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paralee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paralee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paralee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paralee, and how old are they?
An estimated 181 Americans named Paralee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 72 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 272 people named Paralee (271 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 255 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,932 babies since 1880, Paralee is the most given (63% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Paralee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Paralee and names like it
- Compare Paralee and ParleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sParalee peaked in 1920.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paralee since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Paralee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Paralee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.