Parris
Masculine · “of the Parisii”
Parris is given to both — 1,903 boys and 1,669 girls since 1880. See Parris as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Paris is named after a tribe. The Parisii were a Gaulish people living on an island in the Seine when the Romans arrived, the Romans called their town Lutetia, and the tribe's name outlasted the Roman one. The Trojan prince of the same name has nothing to do with any of it.
How old is the name Parris?
Parris first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Parris alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 1,700 people named Parris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Parris most popular?
Parris peaked in 1968, reaching #1314 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,694 places below that high. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Parisii to Parris
The story of Parris
Lutetia Parisiorum was the Roman name — Lutetia of the Parisii — and by the fourth century people had dropped the first half and were calling it simply Parisius. That is how a city ends up carrying the name of the people who were there before the empire arrived. The surname Parris means someone from Paris, and it went to England and then to New England, where the most consequential American bearer was Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village in whose household the accusations of 1692 began. There is also Parris Island in South Carolina, where the Marine Corps has trained recruits since 1915, which is where most Americans have met the spelling.
Meaning
of the Parisii
The city is named for the Gaulish tribe whose name the Romans recorded as Parisii; the tribe's own name has no agreed meaning. The Trojan Paris in the Iliad is an entirely separate Greek name of unknown origin, and the resemblance is a coincidence.
How the name formed
- Parisii
- Paris
- Parris
Related forms: Paris
Pronouncing Parris
PAIR-iss
Two syllables, stress on the first. Paris and Parris are said identically in English; the French says pa-REE with no final consonant, which is a different word in the mouth.
Nicknames for Parris
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
- 1917
- Most boys named
- 199257 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1314reached in 1968
- Change vs 2023
- −28.6%5 in 2025, from 7
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.
Parris in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Paris in French — same name
Parriss among us
people named Parris are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Parris
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Parris
- #12008
- Parris on the 2025 chart
- #863
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Parris went to 5 boys in 2025, but Paris is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 65, which makes it the 863rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 11,145 places above the chart.
- Paris60
- Parris5
About 1 boy in 26,278 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 341,615 for Parris itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jacobo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Parris's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacobo climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacobo's path sketches the road Parris is walking now.
Parris 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
Parris beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Parris in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented origin in a named people the Romans wrote about.
- It genuinely serves either child, and the records show both.
- Two syllables that everyone can already say and nearly spell.
- It is one of the best-known cities in the world and that association is fixed.
- Paris with one r is far commoner as a given name, so the spelling will be given.
- It leans to girls without settling, so forms will guess and will sometimes be wrong.
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Frequently asked
- How many Parriss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Parris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Parris?
- Parris is one of 2 recorded spellings. Paris is the more common one — 60 births in 2025 against 5 for Parris.
- How popular is the name Parris in 2025?
- Parris ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Parris?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Parris — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Parris with classmates?
- Parris will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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