Parisa
Parisa was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,844 among girls’ names; 1,102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Parisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Parisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Parisa?
#4,844 among girls’ names, 2025
Parisa fell from #4,566 in 2015 to #4,844 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 17.4 per million.
40 babies in 1991, the peak
Parisa peaked in 1991, when 40 girls were given it, #2,912 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,844 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,109 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,344 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,874 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,114 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,611 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,276 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,640 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,977 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,566 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,566 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,588 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,947 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,801 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,167 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,837 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,251 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,850 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,023 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,600 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,927 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,015 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,501 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,690 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,595 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,466 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,840 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,594 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,775 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,224 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,799 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,646 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,392 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,051 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,912 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,081 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,367 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,448 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,089 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,954 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,399 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,785 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,063 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,297 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,963 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,451 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,320 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,285 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,765 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,425 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,098 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,119 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,225 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Parisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Parisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Parisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Parisa, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,102 Americans ever recorded as Parisa. The median Parisa alive today is 23 years old; half are between 11 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,975 people named Parisa (1,974 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 951 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 366 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 323 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 331 |
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 Parisa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,711 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,328 | 0.4× |
Where Parisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Parisa is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.8 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 Parisa 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,245 babies since 1880, Parisa is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 33 babies (85%), 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 Parisa
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 Parisa and names like it
- Compare Parisa and ParissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sParisa peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Parisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Parisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Parisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.