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Parris vs Parrish

American parents have registered 3,572 Parrises since 1880, against 3,190 Parrishes. But in 2025 it was Parrish that was commoner, 15 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Parris Parrish

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 90 years in which either name was published, Parris for 69 years and Parrish for 21 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Parris Parrish
Total US births 3,5723,190
Most in one year 121134
Babies in 2025 1215
Estimated living today 3,3002,900
Median age today 3138
Peak year 19931966
Best rank 1,472nd boys663rd boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th8,243rd
First recorded 19171943
Girls / boys 1,669 / 1,903484 / 2,706

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 Parrishes alive today are over 38; half the Parrises are over 31. That is 7 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: Parris and Parrish.