Names/P

Paris

girls’ name · 78%boys’ name · 22%FallingCompare

Paris is ranked 484th among girls in 2024 (633 births). Its best rank was 157th, in 2004.

Rank in 2024
#484up 9 from 2023
Births in 2024
6330.04% of girls
Peak year
20042,150 births
Best rank
#157in 2004
Since 1917
42,357people given the name
Babies named Paris, by year of birthgirlsboys
06251.3k1.9k2.5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

33,157 girls have been named Paris in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 2,150 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 269 → 484).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2010s alone account for 33%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Paris is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are boys (9,200), most of them born around 1991.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Paris
1910s23
1920s29
1930s13
1940s68
1950s225
1960s602
1970s500
1980s1,980
1990s5,066
2000s10,345
2010s10,958
2020s3,348

In 2004, its biggest year

Paris was the 157th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.

Names that rose and fell with Paris

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.