Parrish vs Parthenia
American parents have registered 3,190 Parrishes since 1880, against 1,458 Parthenias. Parrish is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Parrish Parthenia
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 144 years in which either name was published, Parthenia for 79 years and Parrish for 65 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Parrish | Parthenia | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,190 | 1,458 |
| Most in one year | 134 | 28 |
| Babies in 2025 | 15 | 11 |
| Estimated living today | 2,900 | 580 |
| Median age today | 38 | 66 |
| Peak year | 1966 | 1923 |
| Best rank | 663rd boys | 1,556th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,243rd | 8,860th |
| First recorded | 1943 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 484 / 2,706 | 1,458 / 0 |
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 Parthenias alive today are over 66; half the Parrishes are over 38. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Parrish Illinois (4.7×), Georgia (2.8×), North Carolina (2.6×)
- Parthenia North Carolina (22.1×)
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: Parrish and Parthenia.