Paris
About 42,923 American babies have been named Paris since 1881, most of them around 2004. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 592nd. About 41,000 Parises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Paris boys named Paris
Girls and boys called Paris
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Paris crossed from boys to girls in 1983, and has stayed there for 43 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 96% girls, and in 2025 it was 89%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 106 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 42,923
- Estimated living today
- 41,000
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 157th
- Rank in 2025
- 592nd
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 33,663 / 9,260
How old the living Parises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 42,923 babies given the name since 1881, about 41,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 770 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Latin - name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a cel-gau tribe, from xtg *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Pariss
- Paris Hilton (born 1981)American media personality
- Paris Jackson (born 1998)American model, actress, singer and musician
- Paris Berelc (born 1998)American actress and model
- Paris Bordone (1500–1571)Italian artist
- Paris Pişmiş (1911–1999)Turkish-Mexican astronomer
- Albert Paris Gütersloh (1887–1973)Austrian painter
- Paris Lees (born 1986)British journalist and activist for transgender rights
- Paris Brunner (born 2006)German footballer
People named Paris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Paris is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Paris is most concentrated in Georgia (2.2×), Louisiana (2.2×), Nevada (2.1×), Florida (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular girls’ names the year Paris peaked:
Paris elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Paris | 4,407 | 119th |
| New Zealand girls | Paris | 551 | 36th |
| England and Wales boys | Paris | 374 | 717th |
| France girls | Paris | 370 | 1,108th |
| France boys | Paris +1 spelling | 355 | 1,569th |
| Scotland girls | Paris | 172 | 210th |
| Ireland girls | Paris | 132 | 272nd |
| Belgium girls | Paris | 47 | 962nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Paris | 45 | 193rd |
| Switzerland boys | Paris | 44 | 848th |
| Poland girls | Paris | 9 birth registrations | 548th |
| Poland boys | Paris | 2 birth registrations | 736th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Paris: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Paris | 35 | 0.003% | 727th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Paris | 8 | 0.002% | 529th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Paris | 1 | 0.002% | 182nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Paris: rank by region
In 2006, Paris was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Paris | 733 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Paris by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 546th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Paris among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Paris | 12 | 29 |
| Finland boys | Paris | 7 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Paris lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 246 men called Paris were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salamanca | Paris | 5 | 0.031 | 1,248 |
| Valladolid | Paris | 6 | 0.023 | 1,682 |
| Zaragoza | Paris | 10 | 0.020 | 2,289 |
| Barcelona | Paris | 55 | 0.019 | 2,462 |
| Palmas, Las | Paris | 10 | 0.017 | 3,824 |
| Coruña, A | Paris | 7 | 0.013 | 2,575 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Paris against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.