Parrish — #7819 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Parrish

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,697 babies named Parrish between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Parrish currently holds the #7819 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 124 babies received it in a single year. Parrish is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 478 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Parrish performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 796 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Parrish shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 200 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Parrish in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Parrish 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 2,697 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.