Parmis
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Parmis has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2010, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Parmis, 2019
1 in 694,000
Parmis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Parmis?
Parmis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Parmis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Parmis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Parmiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Parmis was born before 2013 — so the typical Parmis is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 65.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 44
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 65.9% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Parmis 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 2010 (6)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Parmis
Parmis is not the most common spelling — Paris is, with 52.8% against Parmis's 0.07%.
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.
Parmis around the world
Where Parmis 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 & Wales2004–2016#4,763in 2016
- Canada2006–2009#2,869in 2009
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 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.
Parmis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Parmis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Parmis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.