Paris
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
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
By decade
| Decade | girls named Paris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | |
| 1920s | 29 | |
| 1930s | 13 | |
| 1940s | 68 | |
| 1950s | 225 | |
| 1960s | 602 | |
| 1970s | 500 | |
| 1980s | 1,980 | |
| 1990s | 5,066 | |
| 2000s | 10,345 | |
| 2010s | 10,958 | |
| 2020s | 3,348 |
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.
- Arianapeak 2014
- Viktoriapeak 2015
- Ansleypeak 2011
- Annelisepeak 2011
- Daniellapeak 2007
- Julianapeak 2007
- Juliannapeak 2006
- Miyapeak 2007
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.