Parrish
Parrish is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,496 among girls’ names and #8,738 among boys’, #12,761 among all names counting both); 3,190 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Parrish and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 28 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Parrish by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Parrish?
#8,738 among boys’ names, 2025
Parrish fell from #5,009 in 2015 to #8,738 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 5.3 per million.
134 babies in 1966, the peak
Parrish peaked in 1966, when 134 babies were given it (124 boys, #666 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,496 | 9 | #8,738 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #8,163 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 12 | #7,180 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,873 | 14 | #6,386 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,152 | 8 | #9,463 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,889 | 14 | #6,203 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,383 | 25 | #4,197 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,223 | 18 | #5,254 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,207 | 13 | #6,573 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,206 | 21 | #4,730 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 19 | #5,009 | |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,700 | 16 | #5,652 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,055 | 14 | #6,157 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,247 | 23 | #4,347 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,582 | 21 | #4,618 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,452 | 14 | #6,280 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,756 | 15 | #6,003 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,499 | 16 | #5,693 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,641 | 22 | #4,462 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 25 | #3,964 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,720 | 28 | #3,501 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,497 | 24 | #3,823 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,359 | 34 | #2,903 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,911 | 34 | #2,798 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,913 | 34 | #2,771 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 39 | #2,460 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,108 | 29 | #2,915 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,416 | 48 | #2,005 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,609 | 39 | #2,218 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,968 | 42 | #2,060 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,341 | 56 | #1,636 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,965 | 70 | #1,400 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,284 | 76 | #1,303 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,052 | 88 | #1,191 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,165 | 67 | #1,387 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,012 | 52 | #1,601 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,399 | 50 | #1,603 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,182 | 43 | #1,657 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 24 | #2,376 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,489 | 26 | #2,206 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,937 | 32 | #1,860 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,936 | 29 | #1,921 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,487 | 30 | #1,851 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,995 | 22 | #2,321 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 24 | #2,181 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 29 | #1,945 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 22 | #2,290 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,286 | 19 | #2,451 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 26 | #1,935 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,426 | 25 | #1,976 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,406 | 44 | #1,317 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,099 | 39 | #1,383 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 67 | #990 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,348 | 78 | #909 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,738 | 96 | #826 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,717 | 88 | #859 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,339 | 84 | #840 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,504 | 96 | #760 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,225 | 100 | #738 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,399 | 124 | #666 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,889 | 78 | #833 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,556 | 72 | #899 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,345 | 63 | #953 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,293 | 96 | #777 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,179 | 78 | #868 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,450 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 8 | #2,909 |
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 Parrish a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,190 Americans recorded as Parrish, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Parrish: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Parrish, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,190 Americans ever recorded as Parrish. The median Parrish alive today is 39 years old; half are between 28 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 2,343 people named Parrish (413 women and girls, 1,930 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,907 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 266 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 985 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 834 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 568 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 264 |
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 Parrish born?
The states with the most babies named Parrish are Illinois, New York and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 206 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 134 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 115 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 69 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 67 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 54 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Parrish is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Parrish is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1943 it was given 1.3 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 Parrish 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,402 babies since 1880, Parrish is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 24 babies (63%), again the most given.
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.
More about Parrish and names like it
- Compare Parrish and ParishBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sParrish peaked in 1966.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Parrish since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Parrish.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Parrish alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with PMost given first.