Parissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Parissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 92 babies named Parissa between 1986 and 2015, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Parissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 8 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Parissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 39 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Parissa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Parissa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Parissa 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 92 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.