Parish — #10984 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Parish

The Social Security Administration has registered 901 babies named Parish between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Parish currently holds the #10984 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Parish is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 302 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Parish performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 238 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Parish shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 56 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Parish in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Parish 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 901 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.