Parham
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Parham has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1994, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Parham, 1995
1 in 732,000
Parham over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Parham?
Parham had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,660,254 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 381,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,420 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Parham sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Parham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Parhams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Parham was born before 1994 — so the typical Parham is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Parham 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (5)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Parham
Parham is not the most common spelling — Aram is, with 29.5% against Parham's 0.09%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Parham around the world
Where Parham 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 & Wales2016–2016#4,810in 2016
- Canada2004–2004#2,269in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Parham by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Parham
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Parham
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.