Paris
Paris is given to both girls and boys: 497 girls and 60 boys were given it in 2025 (#592 among girls’ names and #2,326 among boys’, #1,092 among all names counting both); 42,923 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Paris every year since 1983.
An estimated 40,500 Americans named Paris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Paris mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Paris is “a female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, usually from the French city.” Its etymology gives the senses “Lutetia of the Parisii” (Parisiorum) and “cauldron” (*parios).
Also “a male given name from place name.”
From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.
/ˈpæɹɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Paris?
#592 among girls’ names, 2025
Paris fell from #263 in 2015 to #592 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.68 to 0.31 per 1,000.
2,246 babies in 2004, the peak
Paris peaked in 2004, when 2,246 babies were given it (2,150 girls, #157 among girls’ names). The 557 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 497 | #592 | 60 | #2,326 |
| 2024 | 636 | #484 | 52 | #2,590 |
| 2023 | 623 | #491 | 66 | #2,183 |
| 2022 | 642 | #490 | 62 | #2,311 |
| 2021 | 704 | #445 | 64 | #2,213 |
| 2020 | 750 | #416 | 68 | #2,089 |
| 2019 | 918 | #345 | 74 | #1,991 |
| 2018 | 989 | #330 | 78 | #1,913 |
| 2017 | 1,090 | #301 | 74 | #1,953 |
| 2016 | 1,161 | #274 | 81 | #1,856 |
Every recorded year (141)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,219 | #263 | 84 | #1,798 |
| 2014 | 1,231 | #269 | 96 | #1,624 |
| 2013 | 1,243 | #256 | 107 | #1,518 |
| 2012 | 1,185 | #274 | 87 | #1,736 |
| 2011 | 940 | #337 | 74 | #1,897 |
| 2010 | 984 | #327 | 78 | #1,863 |
| 2009 | 777 | #410 | 61 | #2,194 |
| 2008 | 688 | #460 | 76 | #1,914 |
| 2007 | 867 | #380 | 70 | #2,014 |
| 2006 | 1,265 | #261 | 87 | #1,653 |
| 2005 | 1,694 | #205 | 90 | #1,564 |
| 2004 | 2,150 | #157 | 96 | #1,451 |
| 2003 | 1,160 | #273 | 117 | #1,244 |
| 2002 | 617 | #463 | 129 | #1,120 |
| 2001 | 542 | #507 | 143 | #1,031 |
| 2000 | 585 | #473 | 198 | #813 |
| 1999 | 570 | #465 | 173 | #877 |
| 1998 | 565 | #458 | 203 | #774 |
| 1997 | 492 | #502 | 177 | #820 |
| 1996 | 433 | #539 | 202 | #747 |
| 1995 | 474 | #514 | 204 | #751 |
| 1994 | 510 | #489 | 219 | #704 |
| 1993 | 571 | #438 | 267 | #631 |
| 1992 | 529 | #466 | 275 | #622 |
| 1991 | 483 | #494 | 297 | #589 |
| 1990 | 439 | #541 | 233 | #659 |
| 1989 | 367 | #592 | 230 | #658 |
| 1988 | 293 | #660 | 178 | #704 |
| 1987 | 315 | #615 | 172 | #692 |
| 1986 | 295 | #630 | 143 | #759 |
| 1985 | 204 | #807 | 144 | #739 |
| 1984 | 138 | #1,032 | 125 | #774 |
| 1983 | 109 | #1,191 | 101 | #876 |
| 1982 | 110 | #1,217 | 126 | #786 |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,469 | 106 | #864 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,717 | 109 | #848 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,853 | 93 | #912 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,930 | 60 | #1,144 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,968 | 78 | #973 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,903 | 75 | #968 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,393 | 78 | #930 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,766 | 76 | #941 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,876 | 53 | #1,134 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,915 | 100 | #803 |
| 1971 | 56 | #1,659 | 128 | #731 |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,556 | 120 | #751 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,555 | 66 | #949 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,802 | 62 | #927 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,636 | 64 | #905 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,851 | 59 | #948 |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,362 | 59 | #962 |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,379 | 70 | #910 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,349 | 61 | #968 |
| 1962 | 77 | #1,265 | 59 | #1,001 |
| 1961 | 77 | #1,264 | 63 | #976 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,479 | 63 | #959 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,636 | 49 | #1,111 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,494 | 46 | #1,145 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,949 | 50 | #1,084 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,821 | 77 | #857 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,146 | 32 | #1,360 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,497 | 27 | #1,488 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,784 | 27 | #1,471 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,394 | 29 | #1,424 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,436 | 39 | #1,166 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,182 | 26 | #1,455 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,561 | 24 | #1,534 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,533 | 41 | #1,121 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,251 | 32 | #1,313 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,603 | 29 | #1,322 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 39 | #1,027 | |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,097 | 33 | #1,169 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,429 | 38 | #1,119 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,195 | 30 | #1,292 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,863 | 17 | #1,739 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 18 | #1,671 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 26 | #1,316 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 31 | #1,194 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 19 | #1,619 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 23 | #1,411 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 20 | #1,575 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 29 | #1,264 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 22 | #1,490 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 26 | #1,376 | |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,772 | 28 | #1,326 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,432 | 24 | #1,522 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 32 | #1,261 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 29 | #1,377 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 37 | #1,193 | |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,487 | 29 | #1,375 |
| 1925 | under 5 | 28 | #1,414 | |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,608 | 36 | #1,219 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,842 | 62 | #867 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 40 | #1,134 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 29 | #1,408 | |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,594 | 44 | #1,065 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,728 | 44 | #1,032 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,184 | 45 | #1,006 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,628 | 38 | #1,090 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 31 | #1,197 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 29 | #1,236 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 27 | #1,122 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 22 | #1,100 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 22 | #986 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 8 | #1,359 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 6 | #1,542 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 14 | #796 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 12 | #814 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 9 | #983 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 10 | #838 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 6 | #1,176 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 11 | #723 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 9 | #767 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 9 | #953 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 6 | #1,024 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 7 | #969 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 7 | #913 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 7 | #956 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 13 | #600 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 12 | #620 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 8 | #815 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 11 | #674 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 13 | #556 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 7 | #865 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 5 | #1,141 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 10 | #635 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 6 | #913 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 8 | #743 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 7 | #783 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 11 | #600 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 10 | #581 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Paris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 42,923 Americans recorded as Paris, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Paris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paris, and how old are they?
40,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 42,923 Americans ever recorded as Paris. The median Paris alive today is 21 years old; half are between 12 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 30,275 people named Paris (24,407 women and girls, 5,868 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36,911 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 116 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,080 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Paris born?
The states with the most babies named Paris are Texas, Florida and California, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 60 | #578 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 51 | #415 | 1.2× |
| California | 39 | #904 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 35 | #302 | 1.7× |
| New York | 31 | #673 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 27 | #423 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 24 | #454 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 23 | #388 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 19 | #431 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 19 | #262 | 1.3× |
Where Paris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Paris is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Paris with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 51,456 babies since 1880, Paris is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 557 of their 604 babies (92%), again the most given.
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 Paris
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Yuki | 1,634 | |
| Bryn | 8,861 | |
| Kendall | 101,883 | |
| Emmanuelle | 1,722 |
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 Paris and names like it
- Compare Paris and ParrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sParis peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paris since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Paris: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Paris.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paris alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.