Paralee vs Park
American parents have registered 1,637 Parks since 1880, against 1,215 Paralees. Park is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Paralee Park
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 139 years in which either name was published, Park for 94 years and Paralee for 45 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.
- 1881–1889 Paralee ahead
- 1890–1893 Park ahead
- 1897–1932 Paralee ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1936–2025 Park ahead, apart from 2 short spells
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Paralee | Park | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,215 | 1,637 |
| Most in one year | 39 | 33 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 190 | 700 |
| Median age today | 78 | 44 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1923 |
| Best rank | 1,233rd girls | 1,256th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 8,243rd |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 1,215 / 0 | 0 / 1,637 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Paralees alive today are over 78; half the Parks are over 44. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Paralee Alabama (26.9×), Texas (2.6×)
- Park Pennsylvania (16.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Paralee and Park.