Paris

At the 2020 census, 16,831 Americans bore the surname Paris — 2,087th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,800.

By the numbers

People: 16,831
Rank: 2,087th
How common: 1 in 17,800
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Paris described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.3%
Hispanic or Latino 11.7%
Black, not Hispanic 11.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Paris

Matthew Paris (1200–1259)medieval English chronicler and artist (c.1200-1259)
Gaston Paris (1839–1903)French medievalist and writer
Dominik Paris (born 1989)Italian alpine skier and Italian Carabiniere
Ryan Paris (born 1953)Italian musician
Jerry Paris (1925–1986)American actor and director
Gabriel París Gordillo (1910–2008)President of Colombia
Victoria Paris (1960–2021)American pornographic actress
Laura Paris (born 2002)Italian rhythmic gymnast

People named Paris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Paris

Also a first name

Paris has been given to 42,923 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2004. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.