Parish
Parish was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,736 among boys’ names; 1,212 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Parish and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 19 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Parish by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Parish?
#8,736 among boys’ names, 2025
Parish fell from #6,587 in 2015 to #8,736 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 5.3 per million.
56 babies in 1991, the peak
Parish peaked in 1991, when 56 babies were given it (43 boys, #1,850 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 9 | #8,736 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,975 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 8 | #9,527 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 12 | #7,129 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,775 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,934 | 9 | #8,553 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,160 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #8,006 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,464 | 5 | #13,736 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,558 | 17 | #5,487 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,938 | 13 | #6,587 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,698 | 10 | #7,968 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,872 | 10 | #7,940 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,573 | 9 | #8,686 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,923 | 17 | #5,367 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,601 | 11 | #7,441 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,279 | 12 | #7,121 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,498 | 7 | #10,723 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,407 | 6 | #11,978 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,432 | 7 | #10,363 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,584 | 13 | #6,123 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 9 | #7,998 | |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,107 | 11 | #6,601 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #6,913 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,791 | 12 | #5,926 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,513 | 24 | #3,496 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,104 | 11 | #5,939 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,673 | 16 | #4,355 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,840 | 14 | #4,612 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,363 | 8 | #6,940 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,425 | 15 | #4,212 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,463 | 31 | #2,478 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,909 | 43 | #1,921 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,202 | 34 | #2,240 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,869 | 43 | #1,850 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,459 | 23 | #2,841 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,536 | 16 | #3,566 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,274 | 15 | #3,480 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,662 | 17 | #3,035 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,275 | 14 | #3,391 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 13 | #3,542 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 15 | #3,059 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #6,021 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 13 | #3,438 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #4,074 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,036 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 10 | #3,999 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 11 | #3,551 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,766 | 12 | #3,327 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 9 | #3,923 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 18 | #2,423 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 17 | #2,432 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 15 | #2,574 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 18 | #2,221 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 28 | #1,699 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,924 | 19 | #2,102 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 11 | #2,814 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 17 | #2,013 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,575 | 24 | #1,595 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 18 | #1,866 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 15 | #2,147 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 15 | #2,174 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 11 | #2,638 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,497 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,734 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,726 |
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 Parish a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,212 Americans recorded as Parish, 25% are girls and 75% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Parish: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Parish, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,212 Americans ever recorded as Parish. The median Parish alive today is 33 years old; half are between 19 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 970 people named Parish (310 women and girls, 660 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 232 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 402 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 316 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 165 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,402 babies since 1880, Parish is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 24 babies (38%), again the second 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 Parish
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 Parish and names like it
- Compare Parish and ParrishBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sParish peaked in 1991.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Parish since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Parish.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Parish alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.