Parish

Parish is the 2,571st most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,732 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,732
Rank: 2,571st
How common: 1 in 21,800
Per 100,000: 4.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Parish described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.8%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Parish

Robert Parish (born 1953)American former basketball player
Sarah Parish (born 1968)English actress
Mitchell Parish (1900–1993)American lyricist

People named Parish with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Parish

Also a first name

Parish has been given to 1,212 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 1991. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.