Parish
- Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088
- #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Given to boys 75.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1967 · 24 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 910since 1915
Parish over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | — | #10,799 | 6 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | — | #7,617 | 10 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #1,907 | 43 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,513 | 15 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,668 | 28 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #2,058 | 19 |
| 1969 | — | #2,682 | 11 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,962 | 17 | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | #1,573 | 24 |
| 1966 | — | #1,814 | 18 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,084 | 15 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,114 | 15 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,539 | 11 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five boys were named Parish! It came in at #3,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1962, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Parish is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Parish in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 2,695 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #8,243)
- 176 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #8,243)
- 1,919 spots since 2015 (#6,324 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
52 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1967 at #1,573 (24 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 45,612
- Highest: 1 in 45,612 boys born in 1993 were named Parish (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,573 in 1967, was only 1 in 72,659 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 26.2% of all boys named Parish (238) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2020
- Mostly girls until 2019, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,392 (1915) | #3,392 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,239 (1923) | #4,239 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 116 | #1,573 (1967) | #2,354 |
| 1970s | 157 | #1,668 (1971) | #2,725 |
| 1980s | 125 | #2,942 (1987) | #3,751 |
| 1990s | 238 | #1,823 (1991) | #3,602 |
| 2000s | 111 | #3,423 (2000) | #7,246 |
| 2010s | 102 | #5,200 (2011) | #7,450 |
| 2020s | 50 | #6,828 (2022) | #8,966 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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