Paralee vs Parris
American parents have registered 3,572 Parrises since 1880, against 1,215 Paralees. Parris is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Paralee Parris
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Parris for 80 years and Paralee for 65 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.
Side by side
| Paralee | Parris | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,215 | 3,572 |
| Most in one year | 39 | 121 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 12 |
| Estimated living today | 190 | 3,300 |
| Median age today | 78 | 31 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1993 |
| Best rank | 1,233rd girls | 1,472nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 12,008th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1917 |
| Girls / boys | 1,215 / 0 | 1,669 / 1,903 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Paralees alive today are over 78; half the Parrises are over 31. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Paralee and Parris.