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Parry

Boys' name

Son, through ap

Parry has been given to 508 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1965, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Parry, 1999

1 in 615,000

Parry over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Parry: meaning, origin, and history

Son, through ap

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Parry means

Parry belongs to the name family reached through Parry → ap. Its meaning is “son”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Anglicised from Welsh ap Harri, "son of Henry".

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Parry (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Parry is used in English.

Parry comes through Welsh ap.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ap.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Parry is pronounced /ˈpæɹi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 508 boys were recorded with the name Parry between 1918 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1965; its best national rank was #1,842 in 1965.

How common is Parry?

Parry had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 615,000
6 of 3,692,373 births
Among boys only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,561 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Parry sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 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 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Parry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Parrys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Parry was born before 1962 — so the typical Parry is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
408
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Parry 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1965 (19)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,842
1965

Spellings of Parry

Parry is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 23.5% against Parry's 0.01%.

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 Parry is used

Across 1910–2025, Parry was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,488,380 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

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. Parry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Parry around the world

Where Parry 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.

  • South Australia
    1949–1978
    #424
    in 1978

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Parry by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,842
1965
Peak year
1965
19 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
508
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Parry

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

ParamParsaParleyParksParishParthParkeParasParkParrisParinParagOrryParvCurryHenrryTarryKarryParsonKorryParisParthivCarryParrish

Sibling names for Parry

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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