as a First Name
As a male name in occasional use from the Middle Ages on, this was taken from Greek legend. Paris was the son of Priam who carried off Helen from Sparta to Troy and so caused the Trojan War; his name is of uncertain, probably non-Greek, derivation. Its more frequent use as a modern first name for boys and more especially girls seems to represent an adoption of the name of the French capital (derived from the name of a Gaulish tribe, known in Latinized form as the Parisii, who once lived on the site where the city came to be built).
| 2,018th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,771
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 22,190
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Paris per capita
- 2004
- marked the height of its popularity
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7%
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25%
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68%
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