Parisa
Feminine · “like a fairy”
Parisa is Persian for fairy-like: built from pari, the winged spirit of Persian story, and a suffix meaning resembling. The pari of Iranian folklore is not a small garden fairy but something older and stranger, a being of great beauty who moves between worlds, and the name has carried that association for centuries.
How old is the name Parisa?
Parisa first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Parisa alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 1,100 people named Parisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Parisa most popular?
Parisa peaked in 1991, reaching #2886 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 1,872 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From pari to Parisa
The story of Parisa
The pari appears in Persian literature from the earliest surviving epics, sometimes benevolent and sometimes dangerous, and always beautiful; the word passed into Urdu, Turkish and Azerbaijani with the culture that carried it. Names built on it are common across Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and among Persian-speaking families elsewhere. Parisa in particular became widely given in the twentieth century and came to the United States with Iranian families after the nineteen-seventies.
Meaning
like a fairy; of the pari
Persian pari, a fairy or winged spirit, with the suffix -sa, resembling or like. The same pari sits inside Parisa, Parivash and Parinaz.
How the name formed
- pari
- Parisa
Related forms: پریسا · Perisa · Parisa
Pronouncing Parisa
pah-ree-SAH
Three syllables with the stress at the end in Persian. American English usually moves it forward to puh-REE-suh, and Iranian-American families generally use both.
Nicknames for Parisa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 199140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2886reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- +7.7%28 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Parisa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- پریسا in Persian — transliteration
- Perisa in Turkish — spelling variant
- Parisa in Urdu — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Virginia, New York.
Parisas among us
people named Parisa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Parisa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jalene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Parisa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jalene climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jalene's path sketches the road Parisa is walking now.
Parisa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Parisa is headed
Parisa should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Parisa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Parisa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is documented, poetic and easy to state in three words.
- Pari works as a short form and is itself a real name.
- Every sound in it exists in English, so it is never badly mispronounced.
- It looks like the city of Paris with two letters added, and English readers make that connection first.
- The stress moves between Persian and English, so the name is said two ways.
- Marisa and Parisa are close enough to be swapped in writing.
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Frequently asked
- How many Parisas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Parisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Parisa in 2025?
- Parisa ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Parisa?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Parisa — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Parisa with classmates?
- Parisa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Parisa
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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