Parley
Parley reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 1,446, and has been recorded 693 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 340 Parleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Parley boys named Parley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 693
- Estimated living today
- 340
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,446th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 6 / 687
How old the living Parleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 693 babies given the name since 1880, about 340 are alive — 50 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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.
Notable Parleys
- Parley Baer (1914–2002)American actor
People named Parley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Parley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Parley is most concentrated in Utah (114.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Parley peaked:
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Parley against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.