Parley
#6,348 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Parley has been given to 693 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,348 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Parley, 2025
1 in 237,000
Parley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Parley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,348
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Parley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Parley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Parleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Parley was born before 1945 — so the typical Parley is around 80 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 18.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 324
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (126).
Is Parley 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
- +3,293
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,291
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,993
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.75×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.0%
- Peak was 1918 (25)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.5% average annual change
Spellings of Parley
Parley is not the most common spelling — Parker is, with 28.5% against Parley's 0.15%.
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.
Where Parley is used
Across 1910–2025, Parley was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 11,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Idaho (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Parley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Parley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Parley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Parley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.