Park vs Parry
American parents have registered 1,637 Parks since 1880, against 508 Parrys. Park is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Park Parry
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 138 years in which either name was published, Park for 116 years and Parry for 22 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1880–1952 Park ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1965–1977 Parry ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1979–2025 Park ahead, apart from 2 short spells
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Park | Parry | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,637 | 508 |
| Most in one year | 33 | 19 |
| Babies in 2025 | 9 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 700 | 360 |
| Median age today | 44 | 60 |
| Peak year | 1923 | 1965 |
| Best rank | 1,256th boys | 1,806th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,243rd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1918 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,637 | 0 / 508 |
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 Parrys alive today are over 60; half the Parks are over 44. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Park and Parry.