girls:
478 births since 1961
#5238 (8th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1943
#2435 (47th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1943
#4840 (37th percentile)
The name Parrish is the #4,840 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,163 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 37.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,435 (46.9% percentile) for all time with 2,685 births since 1943. For girls, it ranks #5,238 (8.3% percentile) for all time with 478 births since 1961.
Parrish first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Parrish is available in 65 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 53 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 Parrish has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Parrish were boys.
For boys, Parrish reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 17.9% percentile (ranked #524) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 68 births per million (ranked 17.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Parrish ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Parrish reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #838) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Parrish".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Parrish. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.1% confident that Parrish is pronounced as PEH-rihsh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PA-rihsh, at 29.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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