Meaning not yet researched.
Parrish: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #666 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #666 in 1966; #8,742 in 2025. About 60% of babies named Parrish in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,742 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #666.
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Parrish: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #666 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 124 (1966).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Parrish, making it the 8,742nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 574 places from #8,168 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 10 boys named Parrish in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #666, reached in 1966. That year also had the most boys given the name: 124. For comparison, it was #5,011 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Parrish, making it the 14,500th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #3,890, reached in 1965. The most girls given the name in a single year was 26, in 1992. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Parrish in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 8 babies. In all, 3,190 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 870 babies named Parrish.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 144 US boys were named Parrish; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Paris (42,923 babies since 1880) and Parris (3,572 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Parrish in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,500 | 9 | #8,742 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,168 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,185 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,878 | 14 | #6,391 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,157 | 8 | #9,468 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,894 | 14 | #6,207 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,389 | 25 | #4,201 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,228 | 18 | #5,258 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,211 | 13 | #6,577 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,211 | 21 | #4,731 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #5,011 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,706 | 16 | #5,656 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,060 | 14 | #6,162 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,252 | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,586 | 21 | #4,620 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,459 | 14 | #6,286 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,762 | 15 | #6,007 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,504 | 16 | #5,698 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,645 | 22 | #4,464 |
| 2006 | — | — | 25 | #3,966 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,727 | 28 | #3,505 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,503 | 24 | #3,827 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,364 | 34 | #2,907 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,917 | 34 | #2,802 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,920 | 34 | #2,776 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,464 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,115 | 29 | #2,919 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,422 | 48 | #2,008 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,614 | 39 | #2,221 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,973 | 42 | #2,065 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,346 | 56 | #1,641 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,971 | 70 | #1,404 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,290 | 76 | #1,308 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,057 | 88 | #1,195 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,171 | 67 | #1,393 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,018 | 52 | #1,606 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,405 | 50 | #1,608 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,187 | 43 | #1,662 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,380 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,494 | 26 | #2,208 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,942 | 32 | #1,861 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,940 | 29 | #1,922 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,491 | 30 | #1,852 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,997 | 22 | #2,322 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,182 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,945 |
| 1979 | — | — | 22 | #2,291 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,288 | 19 | #2,452 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,935 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,428 | 25 | #1,977 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,408 | 44 | #1,317 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,100 | 39 | #1,383 |
| 1973 | — | — | 67 | #990 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,349 | 78 | #909 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,740 | 96 | #826 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,718 | 88 | #859 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,340 | 84 | #840 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,505 | 96 | #760 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,226 | 100 | #738 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,400 | 124 | #666 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,890 | 78 | #833 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,557 | 72 | #899 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,346 | 63 | #954 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,294 | 96 | #778 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,180 | 78 | #869 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,451 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,910 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).