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Paraskevi

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Paraskevi has been given to 276 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Paraskevi, 2024

1 in 669,000

Paraskevi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paraskevi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Paraskevi means

Paraskevi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Paraskevi is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 276 girls were recorded with the name Paraskevi between 1968 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2005; its best national rank was #5,477 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Paraskevi?

Paraskevi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Paraskevi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paraskevi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paraskevis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paraskevi was born before 1991 — so the typical Paraskevi is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
276
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1980s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Paraskevi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (13)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,477
1976

Where Paraskevi is used

Across 1910–2025, Paraskevi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,136,945 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Paraskevi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Paraskevi around the world

Where Paraskevi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2016
    #4,763
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1959–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Paraskevi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,477
1976
Peak year
2005
13 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
276
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Paraskevi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Paraskevi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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