Parish is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
At least in the US, the name Parish is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Parish each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Parish will meet someone with the same name. So, Parish is a very special name!
In fact, the name Parish wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Parish seemed more popular than ever in 1967, when 30 parents named their children Parish. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,375, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Parish, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Parish was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Parish a few times. Among all babies, it ranked 14,353, for a total of 12 newborns. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As Parish seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is pretty rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with a P. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Parish is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all first names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average.
If your name is Parish and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Parish, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Parish
Parish
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
R
I
S
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
R
I
S
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Parish sounds like this:
