Parry

10,373 people in the United States were counted with the surname Parry in the 2020 census, making it the 3,375th most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,800.

By the numbers

People: 10,373
Rank: 3,375th
How common: 1 in 28,800
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

Anglicised from Harri, "son of Henry".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Parry

William Edward Parry (1790–1855)English naval officer and Arctic explorer
Hubert Parry (1848–1918)British composer, teacher and historian
Dick Parry (1942–2026)British musician
Diane Parry (born 2002)French tennis player
Milman Parry (1902–1935)American hellenist
Charles Christopher Parry (1823–1890)British-American botanist and mountain climber
Natasha Parry (1930–2015)British actress
Lee Parry (1901–1977)German actress

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

Surnames like Parry

Also a first name

Parry has been given to 508 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 1965. 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.