Paris — #484 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Paris

The Social Security Administration has registered 33,157 babies named Paris between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paris currently holds the #484 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 2,150 babies received it in a single year. Paris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9,200 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paris performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10,958 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Paris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,011 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Paris in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paris 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 33,157 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.