Paris vs Park

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Paris 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 145 years in which either name was published, Paris for 129 years and Park for 16 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

• 1881–1884 Paris ahead
• 1887–1889 Park ahead
• 1897–1901 Paris ahead
• 1904–1913 Park ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1914–2025 Paris ahead

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Parks alive today are over 44; half the Parises are over 20. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Paris Georgia (2.2×), Louisiana (2.2×), Nevada (2.1×)
• 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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