Parris is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.
At least in the US, the name Parris is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Parris each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Parris will meet someone with the same name. So, Parris is a very special name!
While Parris isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1993 the name Parris reached its highest popularity with #2,288 in our ranking of all first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their newborn Parris. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and kids in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Parris.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Parris was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 23 babies were born with the name Parris. This puts the name in rank 9,376 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 14,373,996 newborns was named Parris that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Parris has been and remains marvelously unusual!
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 Parris 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 Parris 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 Parris, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Parris
Parris
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
R
R
I
S
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
R
I
S
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. Parris sounds like this:
