Parley
Parley was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,348 among boys’ names; 693 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Parley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Parley?
#6,348 among boys’ names, 2025
Parley rose from #9,341 in 2015 to #6,348 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.2 per million.
25 babies in 1918, the peak
Parley peaked in 1918, when 25 boys were given it, #1,485 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,348 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,641 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,939 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,462 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,639 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,620 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,605 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,997 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,623 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,341 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,410 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,410 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,480 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,488 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,442 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,139 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,075 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,598 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,675 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,859 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,999 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,515 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,988 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,791 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,382 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,691 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,383 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,806 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,401 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,183 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,838 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,022 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,883 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,998 | 2.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,453 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,828 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,325 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,402 | 5.8 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,280 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,590 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,622 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,433 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,655 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,517 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,885 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,284 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,393 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,908 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,430 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,668 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,519 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,545 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,036 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,075 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,513 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,913 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,032 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,085 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,687 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,440 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,733 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,780 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,790 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,735 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,677 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,485 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,738 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,020 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,574 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,944 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,487 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,711 | 23.3 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,334 | 38.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,267 | 40.8 |
| 1894 | 7 | #931 | 60.5 |
| 1886 | 7 | #826 | 63.2 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,058 | 44.0 |
| 1880 | 9 | #676 | 81.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Parley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Parley has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Parley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Parley, and how old are they?
An estimated 340 Americans named Parley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 457 people named Parley (53 women and girls, 404 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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.
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 Parley born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 177 | #679 | 28.7× |
| Idaho | 10 | not ranked | 2.9× |
Where Parley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Parley is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 28.7 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 boys’ 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 Parley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Parley
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 Parley and names like it
- Compare Parley and ManningBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sParley peaked in 1918.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Parley since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Parley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Parley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.