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Parke vs Parris

American parents have registered 3,572 Parrises since 1880, against 641 Parkes. Parris is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Parke against Parris, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Parke 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 109 years in which either name was published, Parris for 79 years and Parke for 30 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Parke Parris
Total US births 6413,572
Most in one year 17121
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 3303,300
Median age today 5531
Peak year 19151993
Best rank 1,707th boys1,472nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19081917
Girls / boys 0 / 6411,669 / 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 Parkes alive today are over 55; half the Parrises are over 31. That is 24 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: Parke and Parris.