Parris
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Given to boys 53.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1968 · 34 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,903since 1917
Parris 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #3,531 | 46 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #2,580 | 66 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #2,264 | 77 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #3,121 | 44 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #2,570 | 53 | #2,040 | 46 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,510 | 50 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #2,241 | 58 | #1,472 | 63 |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | #1,546 | 57 |
| 1991 | #2,593 | 47 | #1,502 | 58 |
| 1990 | #2,900 | 39 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | #1,760 | 37 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 | #1,672 | 37 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | #1,808 | 31 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | — | #1,948 | 25 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | — | #2,540 | 16 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | — | #2,323 | 16 | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | #1,466 | 34 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #1,435 | 34 |
| 1969 | — | #2,046 | 17 | |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | #1,314 | 34 |
| 1967 | — | #1,609 | 23 | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #1,757 | 19 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | #1,856 | 18 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | #1,384 | 32 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | #1,513 | 27 |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 | #1,852 | 19 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #1,439 | 31 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | #1,463 | 30 |
| 1959 | — | #1,974 | 17 | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #1,593 | 24 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | — | #2,361 | 12 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,435 | 11 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,743 | 9 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,153 | 13 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,367 | 11 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,207 | 12 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,225 | 12 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,656 | 20 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,599 | 22 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,431 | 24 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,537 | 21 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
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| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1917
The first year at least five boys were named Parris! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1924, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Parris is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Parris in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Parris
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 3,269 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
51 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1968 at #1,314 (34 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 1 yr 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 31,132
- Highest: 1 in 31,132 boys born in 1993 were named Parris (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,314 in 1968, was only 1 in 51,117 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 24.0% of all boys named Parris (456) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1995
- Mostly boys until 1994, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 16 | #2,912 (1927) | #3,160 |
| 1930s | 12 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,212 |
| 1940s | 128 | #1,431 (1943) | #2,189 |
| 1950s | 128 | #1,593 (1958) | #2,319 |
| 1960s | 250 | #1,314 (1968) | #1,623 |
| 1970s | 210 | #1,435 (1970) | #2,228 |
| 1980s | 334 | #1,556 (1984) | #1,836 |
| 1990s | 456 | #1,472 (1993) | #1,966 |
| 2000s | 206 | #2,922 (2000) | #4,320 |
| 2010s | 117 | #5,485 (2014) | #7,234 |
| 2020s | 41 | #8,739 (2020) | #10,025 |
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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