Recorded 1881–2025 · United States
Paris was most popular in 2004, when 2,246 American babies were given the name — ranking #327 that year. In 2025 it ranked #1,090, with 557 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 42,923 people named Paris.
Paris first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 141 of the 145 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 42,923 American births named Paris between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 40,646 are estimated to be alive today.
557 American babies were named Paris in 2025, ranking #1,090 that year.
Paris is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 681 births a year, against 1,253 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -46% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Paris is a unisex name — 78.4% of the 42,923 Americans given it were girls and 21.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 1983 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 92% girls and 8% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 40,646 Americans named Paris are alive today — 95% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 21 years old, and half are between 12 and 31.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
See Paris on the interactive charts
About · Privacy · Contact
Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org