The PARISH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,250	2327	0.005	53
United States (1880 census)	7,906	761	0.016	158
Change since 1880	+6344	-1566	-0.011	-105
Other Countries
Australia	1,054	1566	0.006	64
United Kingdom	4,096	1531	0.009	89

Top States for PARISH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,754	1476	0.008	84
California	1,016	3188	0.003	30
Florida	916	2348	0.006	57
Michigan	903	1253	0.009	91
Ohio	738	1948	0.007	65
Top States for PARISH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	539	679	0.020	202
Mississippi	527	889	0.019	185
Idaho	119	1583	0.009	92
Michigan	903	1253	0.009	91
Tennessee	484	1858	0.009	85

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PARISH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PARISH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PARISH in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PARISH by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PARISH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PARISH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PARISH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PARISH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	235	1.65
White (Hispanic)	232	1.63
Native American/Alaskan	222	1.56
Asian/Pacific	113	0.79
White (Caucasian)	11,788	82.72
Black/African American	1,660	11.65

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PARISH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PARISH in historical publications

PARISH. This rather shigular name may be thus accounted for. In many parts of the South of England, in country places, the word parish is used, not so much with reference to the parochial district, as to the village immediately adjacent to the church. Hence, at the period when plebeian surnames began, two Johns or two Roberts, residing in the same ecclesiastical parocJiia, might be called respectively, John or Robert at Field, at Moor, at Hill, or what not — or John or Robert "a the Parlslt." Tlie family of this name formerly settled in Lincolnshire, consider it to be a modification of Paris, the Fr. metroi)olis.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to PARISH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARISH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.