Paraskevi — girls' name

What the Data Says About Paraskevi

The Social Security Administration has registered 271 babies named Paraskevi between 1968 and 2023, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paraskevi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paraskevi performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 63 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Paraskevi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Paraskevi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paraskevi 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 271 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.