girls:
302 births since 1967
#5414 (5th percentile)
boys:
894 births since 1915
#3695 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1915
#6544 (15th percentile)
The name Parish is the #6,544 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,196 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 15.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,695 (19.4% percentile) for all time with 894 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,414 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 302 births since 1967.
Parish first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1967 for girls). Birth data for Parish is available in 64 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 35 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Parish has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Parish were boys.
For boys, Parish reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #722) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Parish ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 21.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Parish reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #845) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Parish".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Parish. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Parish is pronounced as PEH-rihsh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PA-rihsh, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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