Parris
Parris is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,858 among girls’ names and #13,390 among boys’, #14,893 among all names counting both); 3,572 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Parris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Parris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Parris mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Parris is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Parris?
#13,390 among boys’ names, 2025
Parris fell from #8,541 in 2015 to #13,390 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 2.9 per million.
121 babies in 1993, the peak
Parris peaked in 1993, when 121 babies were given it (63 boys, #1,485 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,858 | 5 | #13,390 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,311 | 6 | #11,976 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,452 | 7 | #10,515 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,547 | 8 | #9,610 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,903 | 7 | #10,511 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,388 | 8 | #9,326 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,936 | 10 | #8,050 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,578 | 13 | #6,606 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,776 | 5 | #13,737 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,247 | 15 | #5,976 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,621 | 9 | #8,541 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,902 | 16 | #5,651 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,614 | 10 | #7,941 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,193 | 15 | #5,905 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,211 | 10 | #7,919 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,730 | 14 | #6,279 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,349 | 21 | #4,704 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,526 | 17 | #5,421 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,584 | 18 | #5,154 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,236 | 17 | #5,243 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,595 | 20 | #4,419 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,278 | 20 | #4,371 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,827 | 20 | #4,227 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,949 | 24 | #3,633 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,126 | 19 | #4,242 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,150 | 30 | #2,967 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,887 | 32 | #2,703 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,600 | 46 | #2,056 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,808 | 36 | #2,332 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,544 | 37 | #2,239 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,711 | 33 | #2,382 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,075 | 42 | #2,000 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,254 | 63 | #1,485 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,418 | 57 | #1,556 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,604 | 58 | #1,516 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,933 | 52 | #1,600 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,537 | 37 | #1,978 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,267 | 44 | #1,632 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,824 | 37 | #1,783 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,516 | 26 | #2,205 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,701 | 37 | #1,690 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,987 | 39 | #1,571 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,097 | 28 | #1,941 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,298 | 28 | #1,976 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,801 | 27 | #2,025 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,804 | 31 | #1,840 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,553 | 16 | #2,863 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,853 | 16 | #2,760 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 25 | #1,990 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,413 | 13 | #3,049 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 16 | #2,609 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,769 | 21 | #2,097 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,488 | 19 | #2,189 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 16 | #2,395 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,029 | 34 | #1,490 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,693 | 34 | #1,451 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 17 | #2,107 | |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,417 | 34 | #1,334 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 23 | #1,638 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,661 | 19 | #1,798 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,888 | 18 | #1,898 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,895 | 32 | #1,398 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,461 | 27 | #1,535 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,728 | 19 | #1,884 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,178 | 31 | #1,459 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,100 | 30 | #1,475 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 17 | #2,022 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,923 | 24 | #1,630 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,787 | 9 | #2,964 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,459 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 11 | #2,518 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 9 | #2,896 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 10 | #2,667 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 13 | #2,228 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 11 | #2,464 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 12 | #2,293 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 12 | #2,307 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 20 | #1,694 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 22 | #1,637 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,106 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,232 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 9 | #2,590 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 24 | #1,453 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 21 | #1,578 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #3,057 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,441 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,575 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 9 | #3,091 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,650 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,430 |
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 Parris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,572 Americans recorded as Parris, 47% are girls and 53% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Parris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Parris, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,572 Americans ever recorded as Parris. The median Parris alive today is 32 years old; half are between 21 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 2,600 people named Parris (1,341 women and girls, 1,259 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 278 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 404 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 376 |
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 Parris born?
The states with the most babies named Parris are California, New York and Illinois, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 121 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 109 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 35 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Parris 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 51,181 babies since 1880, Parris is the second most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 593 babies (2.0%), the third most given that year.
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 Parris
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 Parris and names like it
- Compare Parris and ParisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sParris peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Parris since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Parris: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Parris.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Parris alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.